verb [VN]
1 ~ sb (for sth / for doing sth) (formal) to criticize sb for doing sth wrong:
He chastised the team for their lack of commitment.
2 (old-fashioned) to punish sb physically:
Parents are no longer allowed to chastise their children as they did in the past.
chastisement noun [U]
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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.
This entry for chastise is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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