chide : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chide	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for chide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chide v censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" Synonym(s): call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chide \Chide\ (ch[imac]d), v. t. [imp. {Chid} (ch[icr]d), or {Chode} (ch[imac]d Obs.); p. p. {Chidden}, {Chid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chiding}.] [AS. c[c6]dan; of unknown origin.] 1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. --Shak. 2. Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. --Shak. {To} {chide hither, chide from, [or] chide away}, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof. Syn: To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach; reprehend; reprimand.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chide \Chide\, v. i. 1. To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. --Ex. xvii. 2. 2. To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chide \Chide\, n. [AS. c[c6]d] A continuous noise or murmur. The chide of streams. --Thomson.