berate
verb[T]
formaluk/bɪˈreɪt/us/bɪˈreɪt/tocriticizeorspeakin anangrymannerto someone:
严责,训斥As heleftthemeeting, he was berated byangrydemonstrators.他离开会场时遭到了愤怒的示威者责骂。
Doctors are often beratedforbeingpoorcommunicators,particularlywhen they have to givepatientsbadnews.医生常常因不善于沟通遭受指责,特别是当他们必须告诉病人坏消息的时候。
Synonyms
chideformal
lambaste
lecture
rebukeformal
reprimandformal
scoldold-fashioned
Chastising & rebuking
- admonitory
- barracking
- bawl
- bawlsomeoneout
- be a reproach tosomeone/somethingidiom
- carpet
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lecture
- pull
- pullsomeoneup
- punchbag
- punching bag
- putsomeoneintheirplaceidiom
- reproach
- reproachful
- shame
- tear
- there'll be hell to payidiom
- upbraid
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