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upbraid
English
Etymology
From Middle English upbreiden, from Old English ?pbre?dan, equivalent to up- +? braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p?b?e?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Verb
upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)
- (transitive) To criticize severely.
- How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
- (transitive, archaic, followed by with or for, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
- (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
- There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.
- (obsolete, followed by "to" before the object) To object or urge as a matter of reproach
- Synonym: cast up
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Envy
- Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.
- (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, archaic) To vomit; retch.
Synonyms
(criticise): : exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach
Translations
Noun
upbraid (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
- He was ymet; who with uncomely Shame
Gan him salute, and foul upbraid with faulty Blame.
- He was ymet; who with uncomely Shame
Translations
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revile
English
Etymology
From Middle English revilen, from re + Old French aviler (“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”), from a- (“to”) + vil (“vile, cheap”); see vile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???va?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Verb
revile (third-person singular simple present reviles, present participle reviling, simple past and past participle reviled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
- who, when he was reviled, reviled not again
Synonyms
- calumniate
- reproach
- scold
- vilify
- vituperate
Translations
Noun
revile (uncountable)
- (obsolete) reproach; reviling
Translations
Further reading
- revile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- revile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- eviler, levier, liever, relive, veiler
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