• v.
    ⦿censure severely or angrily
    lexical concept
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:bawl out
  2. enl:chide
  3. enl:jaw
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wn:interlingual indexili:i25781

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • bawl outberatecall downcall on the carpetchew outchew upchidedress downhave wordsjawlambastlambastelectureragrebukeremonstratereprimandscoldtake to tasktrounce
  • bawl outberatecall downcall on the carpetchew outchew upchidehave wordsjawlambastlambastelecturerebukeremonstratescoldtake to tasktrounce