berate

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[VN] (formal) to criticize or speak angrily to sb because you do not approve of sth they have done: She berated herself for being a bad mother.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

berateEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary berateEnglish›UyghurQamus berateEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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