Definition
To scold a person.
In Context
- "When she comes home I will certainly be giving her a speaking to about breaking curfew."
Also Said As
- berate
- chastise
- scold
- admonish
- animadvert
- bash
- bawl out
- blame
- blast
- berate
- berisp
- castigate
- censure
- charge
- chastise
- chew out
- chide
- condemn
- criticize
- denounce
- denunciate
- deprecate
- derogate
- dispraise
- drag
- dress down
- eat someone alive
- excoriate
- find fault
- fulminate
- get at
- get down
- get up
- give somebody a piece of one's mind
- give somebody what-for
- inveigh
- lace into
- lambaste
- lay into
- lecture
- light into
- objurgate
- pooh-pooh
- put someone on blast
- rate
- read somebody the riot act
- rebuke
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- rip into
- rubbish
- savage
- scold
- skewer
- slam
- slate
- tear into
- tell off
- threap
- tick off
- tosh
- keelhaul
- upbraid
- vilify
- vituperate