to berate
36
7.2
- verb
- /bɪˈreɪt/
:
reprender
- The foreman moves up the line, berating the workers, yelling at them to dig faster.
- berate others
- berate a man
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either.
- Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either.
- A big part of healing is to stop continuing to berate yourself the way they berated you.
- And they will often berate and shame their partners for being wasteful.
- Apparently he really berated A grad student who wrote an assembler.
- And white religious people have a long history of berating marginalized people in this country.
- Now that's not to say you should like go berate people and spam their inbox, not at all.
- Compliment someone, make someone feel good, don't sit around and berate other people for the way that they look.
- So they can use it to berate or criticize or mock that estranged person.
- But The thing is, do you guys really want like me just to come in here and berate him?
- So when I posted this list, I was laughed at and berated and the mods took my post down.
- And then they berate her and I'm like, OK, so you she's doing exactly what you've told them and you're berating her.
- Advocating scrupulous attentiveness, he berates his readers for drifting off, for going after short term satisfaction.
- That's that's when I my favorite thing is when when you're losing and then people berate you and and then you win and you can berate them back.
- You know, if if you are a North Korean and your boss has just berated you and treated you like scum, you're going to hate that guy.
Examples
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Compliment someone, make someone feel good, don't sit around and berate other people for the way that they look.
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The teacher began to berate the students for talking during the exam.
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You gotta berate me in front of everybody?
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Way to berate me in front of the children.
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You berated me in front of your friends.
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Oh, just because you're on television, you think you can come down here and berate me.
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Berated me for a good hour and a half this morning.
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I grab him by the pits and haul him up so I can berate him face to face.
Fiction book (2000) -
In Nigeria, C.L. Temple, the governor's second in command, berated career officers for being out of touch with the locals.
Academic text (2003) -
Suddenly aware of his danger, Worf froze, berating himself for his lack of caution.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
379
1.4
Shout in an angry voice at someone
89
4.6
To give someone a long serious talk that warns or scolds them about what they did
61
5.3
To strongly criticize someone in public
55
2.2
Speak angrily to someone who has done something wrong
44
8.1
To tell someone angrily that they did something wrong
37
8.1
To scold someone very strongly for something they did
33
7.6
To scold someone strongly for doing something wrong
33
6.1
To tell someone they did something wrong, usually by a person in charge
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
22
7.0
Tell someone you are unhappy with what they did
18
6.3
To scold someone strongly for a mistake
15
7.3
To severely criticize someone or something
14
8.8
To criticize or punish someone very harshly
13
4.2
To speak angrily to someone for doing something wrong
13
7.0
Scold someone angrily in front of others
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
9
8.1
To attack someone with very strong words
7
8.9
To speak angrily to someone for a long time
5
8.3
Tell someone angrily that they did something wrong
3
8.8
To scold someone strongly for something they did wrong
3
7.9
To tell someone strongly that they have done something wrong, often in front of others
3
6.3
To angrily tell someone they did something wrong
3
9.8
To scold someone very harshly
2
7.1
To scold someone angrily and severely
2
9.9
To scold someone angrily
1
8.1
To scold or punish someone angrily for something they did wrong
1
8.7
Tell someone angrily that they did something wrong
1
8.0
To criticize someone or something very strongly in public
1
6.8
Tell someone angrily that they did something wrong
1
9.9
To scold someone strongly for doing something wrong
Shout loudly at someone because they did something wrong
To criticize someone angrily using harsh words
Strongly insult someone in front of others to embarrass them
Attack someone with strong words in public
Antonyms
How Harsh
1
8.0
36
7.2
22
6.8
- Formal
33
6.1
55
2.2
22
7.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
berate = rate (semi-transparent) = be + rate
Formally be- + rate (to scold) is the structure, but many learners know 'rate' mainly as 'to evaluate' rather than 'to scold', and the prefix 'be-' is not semantically obvious.
Etymology
The word berate comes from the small word be- meaning 'make' and the old verb rate, which once meant 'to scold'. So berate literally means 'make' + 'to scold', which is why it means to criticize someone angrily and severely.