upbraid

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[VN] ~ sb (for sth / for doing sth) (formal) to criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you do not approve of sth that they have said or done

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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

upbraidEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary upbraidEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary upbraidEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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unworldly unworried unworthy unwound unwrap unwritten unyielding unzip up up-up-and-coming

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In this entry, upbraid is tagged as verb.

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