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Present participle for to scold or berate somebody
Present participle for to command the doing of by one's authority
Present participle for to blame or insult (someone) in strong or violent language
Verb
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Present participle for to scold or berate somebody
admonishing
rebuking
reprimanding
scolding
berating
castigating
censuring
chastising
chiding
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
lambasting
lecturing
reproving
upbraiding
bawling out
dressing down
carpeting
bollocking
telling off
laying into
taking to task
blowing up at
hauling over the coals
lacing to
pitching into
chewing out
giving someone a dressing-down
having a go at
letting someone have it
reaming out
giving a rocket
giving someone a bollocking
giving someone an earful
giving someone a roasting
giving someone a telling-off
tearing off a strip
giving someone a rollicking
giving someone what for
reproaching
rating
calling down
ragging
keelhauling
ticking off
remonstrating with
giving a talking-to
rapping over the knuckles
blasting
objurgating
reprehending
pulling up
giving someone hell
giving someone a mouthful
tearing into
trimming
giving someone a wigging
giving someone a rating
railing against
tongue-lashing
railing at
rapping
wigging
hammering
giving someone a caning
flaying
giving someone a row
ranting at
coming down on
basting
rowing
slapping down
jawing
blowing up
giving someone some stick
scoring
sending someone away with a flea in their ear
condemning
blaming
denouncing
raking over the coals
excoriating
putting on the mat
reviling
jumping on
slating
vituperating
abusing
flaming
tearing a strip off
chastening
finding fault with
nagging
reaming
attacking
putting down
yelling at
railing
dissing
slapping someone's wrist
vilifying
haranguing
jumping down one's throat
going on at
reprobating
lighting to
calling on the carpet
slamming
savaging
disparaging
aspersing
pummelling
UK
pummeling
lashing
checking
taking to the woodshed
giving a piece of one's mind
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
ripping into
coming down hard on
knocking
bashing
trashing
panning
assailing
roasting
potshotting
belaboring
US
scathing
slashing
crucifying
exprobating
accusing
fulminating against
cautioning
sailing into
monishing
talking to
lessoning
disciplining
slagging off
bringing to book
blistering
laying down the law
scorching
belabouring
UK
denigrating
rubbishing
maligning
pillorying
ripping
speaking to
giving a going over
arraigning
finding fault
getting after
raking
climbing all over
slanging
slapping on wrist
biting someone's head off
punishing
strongly criticizing
recriminating
drawing the line
contemning
bad-mouthing
skewering
running down
rapping on knuckles
criticizing severely
calling to account
telling a thing or two
trouncing
leaning on
jawboning
bagging
smearing
inveighing against
preaching
expostulating
carping at
cutting up
exprobrating
feruling
sorting out
having words with
raking over coals
sending someone away with a flea in his
lowering the boom
giving the dickens
attasking
reprimanding severely
giving tongue-lashing
skinning
denunciating
giving someone a telling off
tearing someone a new one
moralizing
US
moralising
UK
giving piece of mind
ranking on
giving going-over
criticizing hatefully
shouting at
giving one hell
chewing
eating out
cussing out
giving someone a carpeting
jumping all over
dragging over the coals
laying out
rapping someone the knuckles
carping on
snapping someone's head off
sounding off
zapping
tearing apart
opposing
frying
going after
teaching a lesson
ragging on
visiting
making an example of
criticizing strongly
meting out punishment to
tearing down
picking on
twitting
pointing the finger
giving comeuppance
dishonoring
US
giving the devil
dishonouring
UK
laying on
discrediting
defaming
calling to task
expressing disapproval of
disgracing
getting on
harassing
taking down
giving a hard time
taking down a peg
burning one's ears
insulting
lashing into
shellacking
deriding
hitting
slapping
calling over the coals
cudgelling
UK
striking
cudgeling
US
smothering
scourging
slandering
giving some stick to
picking holes in
slurring
animadverting on
cavilling at
deprecating
casting aspersions on
mauling
giving flak to
vituperating against
pouring scorn on
throwing brickbats at
pulling to pieces
nitpicking about
bagging on
sledging
hitting out at
giving a bad press to
disapproving of
derogating
pulling apart
besmirching
giving the business
jumping down someone's throat
taunting
threaping
having someone on the carpet
keeping after
barking at
riling
growling
tying into
beating up on
vilipending
calumniating
crying down
traducing
cursing
impugning
ostracising
UK
scorning
incriminating
remonstrating
backbiting
rebuffing
picking apart
ostracizing
US
rollicking
looking askance
animadverting
speaking
adjuring
advising
throwing the book at
warning
coming down on like a ton of bricks
counseling
US
counselling
UK
correcting
giving someone stick
rapping across the knuckles
having words
severely reprimanding
decrying
caning
belittling
taking to pieces
giving someone a bad press
slighting
execrating
dispraising
libeling
US
libelling
UK
raving at
fulminating
taking apart
slagging
faulting
minimizing
US
ranting
discounting
inveighing
protesting
anathematizing
ridiculing
stigmatizing
US
minimising
UK
stigmatising
UK
going for the jugular
swearing at
speaking ill of
dumping on
lashing out at
disapproving
declaiming
deploring
depreciating
raging
thundering
lampooning
storming
oppressing
persecuting
arguing with
complaining
proscribing
fustigating
hosing
lamming into
lashing out
fuming
wading into
shooting down
letting fly at
tearing to pieces
giving something a bad press
whipping
picking to pieces
taking issue with
calling names
dragging through the mud
thundering against
objecting to
bringing into disrepute
speaking evil of
kicking up a fuss about
kicking up a stink about
giving a black eye
trash-talking
doing a hatchet job on
giving a bad name
spreading lies about
throwing mud at
sullying the reputation of
blackening the reputation of
conducting a smear campaign against
blackening the name of
refuting
satirizing
US
satirising
UK
assaulting verbally
disagreeing with
offending
piling in
setting upon
beating
earbashing
starting on
starting in
imprecating
taking on
accosting
carping
dressing-down
rapping knuckles
casting a slur on
screaming at
giving a tongue-lashing
jumping on one's case
miscalling
zinging
injuring
riding
criticizing harshly
letting fly
rounding on
speaking badly of
diminishing
complaining of
bawling
yelping
yapping
dismissing
delivering a tirade to
cutting down
blowing off
doing a number on
cutting to the quick
passing strictures upon
nagging at
hurling insults at
sounding off to
reviewing unfavorably
bringing under fire
jeering at
giving something a battering
blackening
working over
having at
cracking down on
making a protest to
debasing
demeaning
detracting
demonizing
US
jinxing
digging
demonising
UK
framing
cursing out
judging
naming
adjudging
pronouncing
kissing off
talking down
writing off
making fun of
playing down
spouting
kicking
vociferating
declaring unfit
putting away
sending up
ripping up
doing down
blowing whistle on
hanging something on
pointing finger at
laying at one's door
pinning it on
sending up the river
challenging
objecting
raging against
expostulating about
opposing strongly
protesting strongly at
putting up a fight against
remonstrating about
declaiming against
disagreeing violently with
kicking up
making a fuss about
kicking against
complaining vociferously about
taking great exception to
speaking out against
complaining bitterly about
complaining about
making a protest against
taking a stand against
making a stand against
raising objections to
huffing
raving
speaking out
ranting and raving
making a stand
mouthing off about
going on about
taking a stand
protesting against
animadverting upon
vociferating about
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to command the doing of by one's authority
decreeing
commanding
ordering
dictating
ordaining
ruling
deciding
prescribing
proclaiming
calling
demanding
determining
directing
enacting
mandating
pronouncing
adjudging
enjoining
announcing
authorising
UK
authorizing
US
compelling
constraining
declaring
forcing
imposing
obliging
requiring
setting
laying down
laying down the law
putting your foot down
charging
instructing
bidding
promulgating
choosing
guiding
influencing
governing
stating
setting down
setting out
calling the play
calling the tune
establishing
installing
designating
appointing
constituting
judging
commissioning
delegating
fixing
assigning
making
electing
legislating
nominating
naming
passing
adjudicating
exacting
telling
placing
requisitioning
selecting
requesting
specifying
adjuring
asking
resolving
finding
concluding
detailing
employing
settling
picking
stipulating
deeming
deciding on
enrolling
delivering
signing up
voting in
instituting
arranging
assessing
expecting
engaging
organizing
US
figuring
summoning
organising
UK
hiring
insisting on
setting up
warning
inducting
calling for
giving orders to
ruling on
settling on
considering
holding
reckoning
postulating
estimating
esteeming
evaluating
particularizing
US
rating
rendering
thinking
supposing
necessitating
particularising
UK
empowering
gathering
introducing
inaugurating
soliciting
needing
accrediting
investing
warranting
tasking
entitling
contracting
perceiving
handing down
passing down
deputing
beckoning
allotting
allocating
calling upon
titling
electing for
calling on
giving the order to
taking on
bidding for
stipulating for
recruiting
giving orders
giving the command to
casting as
giving directions
bossing around
posting
exhorting
dealing
advising
lecturing
informing
scheduling
licensing
US
arranging a date for
arranging a time for
giving instructions
confirming
taking
licencing
UK
casting
deputizing
US
making demands on
intending
giving nod
deputising
UK
swearing in
placing trust in
counting
founding
guaranteeing
spelling out
agreeing
conditioning
promising
insisting upon
urging
involving
entailing
identifying
creating
claiming
agreeing upon
fixing up
agreeing on
fixing on
resolving on
deciding upon
defining
effecting
causing
viewing
conceiving
regarding
seeking
giving
returning
constitutionalizing
christening
proffering
denominating
enlisting
labelling
UK
labeling
US
specificating
pledging
subpoenaing
questing
starting
beginning
initiating
levying
surmising
handpicking
making laws
wanting
wishing
valuing
appraising
believing
enacting laws
formulating
investing in
tendering
laying
branding
pegging
denoting
originating
forming
asseverating
issuing
establishing laws
exerting
insisting
providing
ensuring
underwriting
having as a condition
making it a condition
putting
passing laws
tabbing
proposing
slotting
tagging
recognising
UK
classifying
recognizing
US
marking
appreciating
calling the shots
pressing for
clamoring for
forcing upon
imposing on
arbitrating
chartering
innovating
shaping
developing
launching
planting
pioneering
inferring
theorizing
US
deducing
theorising
UK
saying
asking for
picking out
making provision for
enforcing
applying
putting one's finger on
settling upon
putting down for
opting for
pinning down
singling out
pointing to
cherry-picking
regarding as
putting laws in force
drafting
seeing as
sizing up
looking on
thinking of
laying down laws
bringing in
viewing as
affirming
asserting
fining
believing to be
formulating laws
ratifying laws
codifying laws
enforcing laws
making a judgement
looking for
figuring out
summing up
weighing up
collecting
slapping
taxing
bringing about
executing
clapping
wreaking
wrecking
saddling
adopting
putting in place
choosing to do
tapping
giving a ruling on
setting forth
giving a verdict on
passing upon
bringing to bear
bringing into effect
sitting in judgment
making a ruling on
passing judgement on
passing judgment
sitting in judgement on
carrying out
laying on
co-opting
installing as
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Present participle for to blame or insult (someone) in strong or violent language
scarifying
lambasting
slamming
attacking
castigating
excoriating
panning
vilifying
flaying
slashing
lashing
blistering
scoring
scorching
scourging
drubbing
slapping
cutting
scathing
scratching
shooting down
lashing into
ripping into
burning someone's ears
crawling all over
raking over the coals
pinning your ears back
putting someone on the griddle
putting someone on the hot seat
blasting
savaging
bashing
trashing
abusing
vituperating
potshotting
assailing
belaboring
US
injuring
belabouring
UK
tying into
lighting to
beating up on
jumping on
sailing into
criticizing
US
condemning
knocking
censuring
disparaging
denigrating
slating
hammering
rubbishing
roasting
deprecating
maligning
denouncing
pillorying
pummelling
UK
pummeling
crucifying
skewering
slurring
bagging
derogating
reprimanding
reprehending
reproving
aspersing
arraigning
rating
besmirching
objurgating
reprobating
mauling
sledging
criticising
UK
bad-mouthing
running down
slagging off
laying into
finding fault with
pulling apart
railing against
inveighing against
casting aspersions on
pouring scorn on
pulling to pieces
having a go at
picking holes in
giving some stick to
lacing to
throwing brickbats at
nitpicking about
bagging on
cavilling at
animadverting on
hitting out at
giving a bad press to
disapproving of
giving flak to
carping at
vituperating against
cutting up
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