[VN] [usuallypassive] (formal) to make sb feel sorry for sth they have done:
He felt suitably chastened and apologized. * She gave them a chastening lecture.
Rate this entry
About this entry
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.
This entry for chasten is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is chasten a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, chasten is tagged as verb.
Does chasten appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — chasten appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
