different between upbraid vs umbraid

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)

1. (transitive) To criticize severely.
   • How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

2. (transitive, archaic, followed by with or for, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
6. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, archaic) To vomit; retch.

Synonyms

(criticise): : exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach

Translations

Noun

upbraid (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.

   • He was ymet; who with uncomely Shame
     Gan him salute, and foul upbraid with faulty Blame.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English umbreiden (“to scold, reproach”), equivalent to um- +? braid.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

umbraid (third-person singular simple present umbraids, present participle umbraiding, simple past and past participle umbraided)

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To upbraid.

Noun

umbraid (plural umbraids)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Contention; strife.

Anagrams

• Rimbaud