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What is another word for
giving someone what for
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Present participle for to rebuke someone angrily
Present participle for to punish severely
Verb
▲
Present participle for to rebuke someone angrily
rebuking
scolding
berating
reprimanding
reproaching
upbraiding
admonishing
castigating
chastising
lambasting
blasting
censuring
chiding
reproving
carpeting
lecturing
ragging
railing
vituperating
bollocking
telling off
dressing down
letting someone have it
lacing to
laying into
pitching into
pulling up
reaming out
bawling out
giving a piece of one's mind
criticizing
US
taking to task
hauling over the coals
giving someone a telling-off
giving a rocket
giving someone a dressing-down
giving someone a roasting
giving someone an earful
giving someone a rollicking
chewing out
having a go at
criticising
UK
tearing off a strip
reading the riot act
rapping over the knuckles
giving someone a bollocking
ticking off
rating
calling down
trimming
giving someone a wigging
objurgating
giving someone a mouthful
giving someone a rating
keelhauling
giving a talking-to
giving someone hell
remonstrating with
rapping
reprehending
wigging
giving someone a caning
giving someone a row
rowing
giving someone some stick
coming down on
slapping down
blowing up
sending someone away with a flea in their ear
tearing into
flaying
putting on the mat
ranting at
tongue-lashing
basting
railing against
railing at
scoring
hammering
jawing
blaming
condemning
blowing up at
raking over the coals
reaming
slapping someone's wrist
jumping on
flaming
denouncing
chastening
calling on the carpet
abusing
jumping down one's throat
checking
taking to the woodshed
going on at
excoriating
putting down
finding fault with
slating
nagging
dissing
coming down hard on
tearing a strip off
reprobating
cautioning
monishing
talking to
yelling at
lessoning
lighting to
reviling
speaking to
giving a going over
lashing
accusing
raking
climbing all over
slapping on wrist
biting someone's head off
disparaging
strongly criticizing
drawing the line
rapping on knuckles
pummelling
UK
disciplining
pummeling
cavilling
UK
telling a thing or two
bringing to book
leaning on
jawboning
caviling
US
laying down the law
attacking
exprobrating
feruling
sorting out
raking over coals
giving tongue-lashing
sending someone away with a flea in his
lowering the boom
giving the dickens
panning
skinning
denunciating
knocking
bagging
giving someone a telling off
tearing someone a new one
criticizing hatefully
slanging
shouting at
giving one hell
chewing
blistering
eating out
haranguing
cussing out
scorching
giving someone a carpeting
jumping all over
belaboring
US
scathing
dragging over the coals
bashing
potshotting
assailing
criticizing severely
slamming
trashing
savaging
laying out
belabouring
UK
rapping someone the knuckles
ripping
carping on
snapping someone's head off
sounding off
zapping
tearing apart
opposing
frying
going after
trouncing
teaching a lesson
ragging on
visiting
making an example of
criticizing strongly
meting out punishment to
tearing down
picking on
finding fault
exprobating
getting after
getting on
harassing
calling to account
taking down
giving a hard time
taking down a peg
burning one's ears
giving the business
jumping down someone's throat
taunting
recriminating
threaping
aspersing
having someone on the carpet
vilifying
preaching
expostulating
keeping after
punishing
rapping across the knuckles
having words
ripping into
severely reprimanding
twitting
pointing the finger
giving comeuppance
dishonoring
US
giving the devil
dishonouring
UK
laying on
discrediting
defaming
calling to task
expressing disapproval of
disgracing
speaking
adjuring
advising
throwing the book at
warning
coming down on like a ton of bricks
counseling
US
counselling
UK
correcting
giving someone stick
reprimanding severely
slagging off
pillorying
roasting
rubbishing
denigrating
fulminating against
inveighing against
maligning
crucifying
decrying
cutting up
slashing
impugning
bad-mouthing
running down
skewering
derogating
caning
arraigning
insulting
smearing
deprecating
slandering
slurring
belittling
pulling apart
taking to pieces
cursing
calumniating
rollicking
sailing into
giving someone a bad press
slighting
execrating
dispraising
libeling
US
libelling
UK
raving at
traducing
fulminating
vilipending
contemning
taking apart
vituperating against
pulling to pieces
slagging
casting aspersions on
faulting
hitting out at
throwing brickbats at
minimizing
US
ranting
discounting
scorning
inveighing
backbiting
protesting
anathematizing
ridiculing
stigmatizing
US
calling over the coals
minimising
UK
stigmatising
UK
picking holes in
going for the jugular
crying down
pouring scorn on
swearing at
speaking ill of
dumping on
lashing out at
animadverting on
disapproving
declaiming
deploring
sledging
depreciating
raging
thundering
lampooning
storming
oppressing
persecuting
remonstrating
scourging
arguing with
complaining
proscribing
animadverting
fustigating
hosing
lamming into
shellacking
lashing out
mauling
deriding
fuming
wading into
shooting down
letting fly at
tearing to pieces
giving something a bad press
whipping
picking to pieces
taking issue with
carping at
disapproving of
calling names
dragging through the mud
thundering against
objecting to
giving a bad press 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
attasking
satirising
UK
assaulting verbally
disagreeing with
offending
piling in
setting upon
moralising
UK
moralizing
US
striking
cudgeling
US
hitting
slapping
cudgelling
UK
smothering
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
incriminating
rebuffing
ostracizing
US
ostracising
UK
letting fly
rounding on
speaking badly of
diminishing
complaining of
bawling
yelping
yapping
having words with
dismissing
growling
riling
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
giving piece of mind
ranking on
giving going-over
lashing into
working over
having at
cracking down on
making a protest to
debasing
demeaning
detracting
tying into
demonizing
US
picking apart
looking askance
jinxing
digging
beating up on
demonising
UK
barking at
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
besmirching
taking a stand
protesting against
animadverting upon
vociferating about
nitpicking about
cavilling at
giving flak to
giving some stick to
bagging on
more ❯
“She
gave him what for
all right. But you could see she was ever so pleased and she went around telling everybody about it.”
Verb
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Present participle for to punish severely
skinning
skinning alive
punishing severely
coming down on
giving it to someone
coming down on like a ton of bricks
tanning someone's hide
beating
flogging
whipping
lashing
walloping
wallopping
battering
caning
thumping
switching
spanking
scourging
abusing
injuring
manhandling
knocking about
giving a lesson to
roughing up
punishing
hurting
giving a going over
beating up
giving someone the works
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giving some slack
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