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chide
What does chide mean?
chide (verb): censure severely or angrily.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce chide?
/tʃaɪd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does chide come from?
From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of chide?
Words related to chide
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “chide”?
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What does “chide” mean?
censure severely or angrily
Right! That's what “chide” means.
impose something unpleasant
Not quite: that's what inflict means.
to shine light on something
Not quite: that's what illuminate means.
go back to a previous state
Not quite: that's what revert means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “chide”?
aspire
Not quite: aspire means something else.
weaken
Not quite: weaken means something else.
rebuke
Right!
plunge
Not quite: plunge means something else.
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