All upbraid synonyms

verb upbraid

• excoriate — Censure or criticize severely.
• cudgelled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
• lay on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• lecture — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
• fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
• jawbone — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
• 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.
• bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
• be-little — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
• ferule — a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
• 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.
• caning — a beating with a cane as a punishment
• bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
• lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
• bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
• disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
• cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
• animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
• blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
• louted — an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
• 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.
• denunciate — to condemn; denounce
• blow the whistle on — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
• disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
• dump on — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
• lay to — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• louting — an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
• dooming — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
• objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
• call on the carpet — (chiefly US) To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
• carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
• inveigh — to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail (usually followed by against): to inveigh against isolationism.
• lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
• carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
• cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
• bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
• give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
• glued — Simple past tense and past participle of glue.
• fussed — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
• find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
• have at — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
• castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
• admonish — If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
• lessoning — Present participle of lesson.
• do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
• charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.