~ sb (for sth / for doing sth) (formal) to criticize or blame sb because they have done sth wrong:
[VN] She chided herself for being so impatient with the children. * [Vspeech] 'Isn't that a bit selfish?' he chided. [also VNspeech]
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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 chide is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is chide a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, chide is tagged as verb.
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