All tell off synonyms

verb tell off

• go against — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• lash — an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
• eat out — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
• berate — If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
• give a piece of one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• jawbone — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
• chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
• bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
• face up to — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
• gluing — a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
• deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
• eyeballed — Simple past tense and past participle of eyeball.
• animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
• make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
• carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
• blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
• lay down the law — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
• disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
• disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
• carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
• call on the carpet — (chiefly US) To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
• chew out — If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way.
• give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
• exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
• glued — Simple past tense and past participle of glue.
• find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• admonish — If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• lessoning — Present participle of lesson.
• get after — to pursue or attack
• chide — If you chide someone, you speak to them angrily because they have done something wicked or foolish.
• monish — to admonish.
• go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
• eyeball — Look or stare at closely.
• beat off — to drive back; repel
• dress down — of or for a dress or dresses.
• glueing — Present participle of glue; obsolete spelling of gluing.
• lower the boom — Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
• call down — to request or invoke
• confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.