to castigate
14
8.8
- verb
- /ˈkæstɪˌɡeɪt/
- Formal
:
censurar
- The teacher had to castigate the student for repeatedly failing to turn in his homework.
- castigated the government
- castigated the United States
They just castigated Trump the same way I did.
- They just castigated Trump the same way I did.
- Certainly for me letting go of castigating myself for thinking a thing or feeling a thing.
- If you describe people who are virtuous but primitive, you can use that to castigate your own people.
- I'm going to set a big goal, but there's so many places that high achievers find to castigate themselves for falling short.
- Like how quickly did his mind get back to castigating himself with that voice, that internal tyrant that was his father?
- Avery Brundage, the leader of the American derogation, castigated New York Jews and the New York Times for making a story of it.
- Now entrepreneurs are oftentimes castigated because they are, you know, they they're taking too big a piece of the pie.
- And I thought, Oh my gosh, how sad that she didn't feel she could even ask that question without being castigated for being non having no compassion.
Examples
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If you describe people who are virtuous but primitive, you can use that to castigate your own people.
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In examining the incentive system and supporting culture, one ought not to castigate participants of that culture for being immoral.
Academic text (1995) -
Long did not take up the offer to join the Democrats, though he continued to castigate white Republicans.
Academic text (2011) -
And you shouldn't castigate your staff members for making a mistake or your children.
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All of this is being done as the Japanese government castigates the United States for thinking of managed trade.
Academic text (1994) -
If I castigate Austin, it is because my own failings are equally as great.
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We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
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As limited as the options available to women are, society severely castigates those who break the norms of acceptable behavior.
Academic text (1997) -
In the Near East, Edward Saeed was absolutely right to castigate our Orientalizing prejudices.
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Native American activists have greatly castigated these works for their trivialization and commercialization of Native American spirituality.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
821
1.0
Make someone suffer for doing something wrong
65
7.7
To scold or punish someone to improve their behavior
61
5.3
To strongly criticize someone in public
55
2.2
Speak angrily to someone who has done something wrong
43
7.9
To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
37
8.1
To scold someone very strongly for something they did
36
7.2
Scold someone angrily and severely
33
7.6
To scold someone strongly for doing something wrong
32
8.0
To criticize someone or something very harshly, often in public
26
6.9
To tell someone firmly that you do not approve of their actions
23
8.2
To say angry, insulting things about someone or something
15
7.3
To severely criticize someone or something
12
8.2
To criticize someone very strongly and angrily
11
8.1
To angrily tell someone off
9
9.8
To criticize someone or something very harshly in public
8
8.2
Make someone less proud by punishing or criticizing them so they behave better
7
9.3
To criticize someone publicly to make them feel ashamed
6
8.8
To scold or punish someone severely to show strong anger, not a real action
4
7.9
Scold someone very strongly for a mistake
3
9.5
Say bad things about someone in public to show others what they did
3
8.8
To scold someone strongly for something they did wrong
1
8.0
To criticize someone or something very strongly in public
1
8.1
To criticize someone or something very harshly
1
8.6
To scold someone very strongly for a mistake
1
9.9
To scold someone strongly for doing something wrong
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
To criticize someone angrily using harsh words
Strongly insult someone in front of others to embarrass them
To attack someone with angry words
To say strongly that someone or something is wrong
Antonyms
How Severe
43
7.9
- Formal
14
8.8
298
4.0
- Formal
26
6.9
701
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
castigate = castig + ate
Although analyzable as the Latinate stem 'castig-' + verb-forming suffix '-ate', the stem is not a standalone English word and the meaning 'criticize/punish harshly' is not derivable by an average B1 learner from the components.
Etymology
Castigate comes from the Latin castigare, which is built on castus meaning 'pure'. The old idea was to 'clean' someone by strong punishment, and that image helps explain why castigate now means to punish or criticize someone very harshly.