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Present participle for to browbeat or reprimand someone harshly, usually in front of other people
Present participle for to forcefully or violently subdue
Verb
▲
Present participle for to browbeat or reprimand someone harshly, usually in front of other people
admonishing
reprimanding
reproaching
scolding
rebuking
browbeating
deflating
telling off
taking to task
ticking off
putting down
putting someone in their place
taking down a peg or two
having a go at
lambasting
berating
chiding
upbraiding
chastising
censuring
criticizing
US
reproving
dressing down
bawling out
hauling over the coals
laying into
carpeting
reading the riot act
letting someone have it
chewing out
criticising
UK
castigating
remonstrating with
pulling up
pitching into
lacing to
rating
giving a talking-to
trimming
giving someone a dressing-down
giving someone a roasting
giving someone a telling-off
giving someone hell
giving someone an earful
objurgating
giving someone a rollicking
giving a rocket
rapping over the knuckles
calling down
giving someone a wigging
giving someone a mouthful
giving someone what for
tearing off a strip
giving someone a bollocking
giving someone a rating
rapping
blasting
keelhauling
ragging
reprehending
bollocking
reaming out
giving someone a caning
giving someone a row
lecturing
rowing
wigging
coming down on
giving someone some stick
sending someone away with a flea in their ear
blowing up
putting on the mat
tearing into
tongue-lashing
railing against
railing at
blaming
flaying
ranting at
basting
scoring
hammering
jawing
condemning
denouncing
jumping on
calling on the carpet
checking
slating
nagging
jumping down one's throat
taking to the woodshed
going on at
flaming
chastening
reaming
blowing up at
slapping someone's wrist
abusing
cautioning
monishing
giving a piece of one's mind
talking to
railing
finding fault with
dissing
raking over the coals
vituperating
ripping
speaking to
giving a going over
lashing
reprobating
climbing all over
slapping on wrist
strongly criticizing
excoriating
drawing the line
yelling at
lessoning
rapping on knuckles
pummelling
UK
disciplining
pummeling
coming down hard on
telling a thing or two
lighting to
trouncing
bringing to book
leaning on
reviling
attacking
feruling
sorting out
raking over coals
sending someone away with a flea in his
lowering the boom
giving the dickens
accusing
panning
skinning
denunciating
knocking
bagging
carping on
raking
sounding off
zapping
tearing apart
opposing
frying
going after
jawboning
belaboring
US
scathing
dragging over the coals
bashing
potshotting
assailing
criticizing severely
slamming
trashing
savaging
laying out
belabouring
UK
rapping someone the knuckles
teaching a lesson
ragging on
visiting
making an example of
criticizing strongly
meting out punishment to
tearing down
picking on
criticizing hatefully
tearing a strip off
slanging
shouting at
giving one hell
chewing
blistering
eating out
haranguing
cussing out
scorching
giving someone a carpeting
jumping all over
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
biting someone's head off
taunting
disparaging
recriminating
threaping
aspersing
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
having someone on the carpet
vilifying
laying down the law
preaching
expostulating
keeping after
speaking
adjuring
advising
throwing the book at
warning
coming down on like a ton of bricks
counseling
US
counselling
UK
correcting
giving someone stick
slagging off
fulminating against
pillorying
slashing
roasting
decrying
crucifying
deprecating
impugning
denigrating
arraigning
rubbishing
caning
cutting up
ripping into
inveighing against
bad-mouthing
maligning
rollicking
execrating
deploring
dispraising
faulting
derogating
sailing into
smearing
punishing
slurring
raving at
running down
pulling apart
giving someone a bad press
cursing
slandering
disapproving
defaming
skewering
calumniating
slagging
anathematizing
proscribing
backbiting
remonstrating
vituperating against
picking holes in
pulling to pieces
calling over the coals
giving something a bad press
casting aspersions on
animadverting on
insulting
slighting
belittling
scourging
libeling
US
libelling
UK
discounting
minimizing
US
sledging
discrediting
contemning
traducing
animadverting
oppressing
persecuting
incriminating
besmirching
stigmatizing
US
framing
minimising
UK
hosing
lashing out
shellacking
ostracizing
US
ostracising
UK
zinging
carping at
mauling
disapproving of
stigmatising
UK
taking to pieces
impeaching
pouring scorn on
picking to pieces
pointing the finger
indicting
crying down
laying at one's door
hitting out at
calling out
expressing a poor opinion of
remonstrating against
giving some stick to
wading into
lashing out at
letting fly at
lamming into
reprimanding severely
refuting
exprobrating
attasking
twitting
disgracing
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
fustigating
penalizing
US
moralising
UK
moralizing
US
assaulting verbally
arguing with
dressing-down
cavilling at
imprecating
disagreeing with
offending
deriding
striking
cudgeling
US
hitting
slapping
cudgelling
UK
smothering
giving comeuppance
laying on
piling in
whipping
beating
nitpicking about
expressing disapproval of
rejecting
shooting down
starting on
starting in
giving someone a telling off
tearing someone a new one
throwing brickbats at
criticizing harshly
calling to task
ridiculing
taking on
giving flak to
screaming at
giving tongue-lashing
thundering against
complaining of
objecting to
lashing into
having words with
giving the devil
having words
giving a bad press to
bagging on
miscalling
injuring
riding
carping
letting fly
rounding on
jumping on one's case
snapping someone's head off
going for the jugular
lampooning
rapping across the knuckles
severely reprimanding
declaiming
prosecuting
vilipending
rapping knuckles
setting upon
bringing to account
penalising
UK
having your knife in
cutting down
blowing off
swearing at
doing a number on
calling names
cutting to the quick
giving piece of mind
ranking on
giving going-over
declaiming against
charging with
showing up
passing strictures upon
nagging at
growling
riling
taking disciplinary action against
dumping on
giving someone a ticking-off
giving an injunction to
trash-talking
giving a black eye
discountenancing
putting on the carpet
discommending
negating
detracting
disesteeming
objecting
assaulting
digging into
tucking into
taking apart
not supporting
tearing to pieces
depreciating
giving a tongue-lashing
tying into
beating up on
barking at
judging
naming
adjudging
pronouncing
scorning
rebuffing
declaring unfit
putting away
sending up
blowing whistle on
hanging something on
pointing finger at
pinning it on
sending up the river
inculpating
saddling
imputing
picking apart
looking askance
fingering
holding responsible
holding accountable
assigning liability to
finding guilty of
laying a bad trip on
considering guilty of
accusing of
assigning fault to
placing the blame on
assigning guilt to
passing the buck
shifting the blame
holding liable
laying a guilt trip on
laying the blame on
more ❯
“As a storm erupted over the leak, embarrassed Prime Minister John Major was forced to
slap down
his own deputy.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to forcefully or violently subdue
quashing
quelling
suppressing
repressing
squelching
subduing
crushing
squashing
silencing
snuffing out
clamping down on
cracking down on
putting down
sitting on
extinguishing
checking
stamping out
putting an end to
overcoming
putting a stop to
stopping
killing
conquering
nipping in the bud
ending
defeating
curbing
thwarting
stifling
arresting
overwhelming
putting the lid on
destroying
overpowering
halting
terminating
abolishing
inhibiting
vanquishing
annihilating
putting the kibosh on
frustrating
getting rid of
shutting down
wiping out
controlling
quenching
stemming
blocking out
routing
scotching
putting out
snowing under
reining in
clobbering
hindering
beating
scuppering
prostrating
whelming
devastating
flooring
overmastering
wrecking
swamping
demolishing
ruining
oppressing
bringing someone to their knees
breaking
blowing away
overthrowing
queering
overturning
obliterating
finishing
subjugating
trampling on
strangling
icing
burying
deadening
quelching
cutting off
bringing to an end
forcing down
spiking
bearing down on
discontinuing
putting paid to
grinding down
extirpating
blotting out
reducing
withholding
bringing to screeching halt
torpedoing
clamping down
cracking down
rejecting
dismissing
limiting
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
gaining mastery over
gaining control over
throttling
nixing
spoiling
scuttling
blocking
curtailing
obstructing
foiling
stymieing
messing up
dashing
eliminating
censuring
trashing
squishing
scrunching
censoring
abating
closing up
clamming
keeping down
dulling
settling
cutting short
choking off
dumbing
restraining
bridling
dishing
constraining
containing
mastering
governing
diminishing
holding back
mellowing
smothering
softening
lessening
damping
toning down
keeping the lid on
keeping a lid on
keeping in check
moderating
getting under control
holding in check
licking
quietening down
putting lid on
cowing
keeping in
bringing to naught
putting kibosh on
shushing
holding in
triumphing over
driving underground
bottling
trampling
interrupting
dominating
clamping
beating down
holding down
keeping inside
bringing under the yoke
treading on
subordinating
putting the squeeze on
bringing to heel
treading
preventing
impeding
restricting
retarding
hampering
barring
forestalling
interfering with
circumventing
countering
averting
baulking
UK
counteracting
staving off
balking
US
warding off
shutting out
derailing
opposing
prohibiting
nullifying
avoiding
stalling
holding off
stonewalling
trammelling
trammeling
defending against
heading off
muffling
evading
gagging
circumnavigating
crimping
skirting
sidestepping
choking
standing in the way of
doing for
steering clear of
putting the stopper on
slowing
eradicating
staunching
neutralizing
US
damming
obviating
upsetting
discouraging
braking
intercepting
weeding out
quieting
outwitting
interdicting
repulsing
checkmating
regulating
neutralising
UK
keeping lid on
keeping back
bottling up
fending off
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
muzzling
cramping
getting out of
impairing
suffocating
escaping
bypassing
exterminating
expunging
deflecting
disrupting
stultifying
crippling
banishing
removing
taking wind out of
crashing
unsettling
juking
taking down
ditching
stumping
delaying
fettering
reining
pausing
muting
putting a lid on
swallowing
drying up
stilling
corking
hushing
shutting up
dummying up
quietening
tongue-tying
bringing to a stop
bringing to a halt
bottlenecking
fighting back
holding
damping down
rebuffing
taming
choking back
putting a brake on
pulling in
slackening pace
stemming the flow of
playing for time
biting back
bringing to a standstill
keeping under control
slowing down
forfending
plugging
precluding
anticipating
staving
barricading
sealing
caulking
clogging
keeping off
turning aside
keeping at bay
ruling out
filling up
jamming
filling
closing out
blockading
clogging up
shaking
indisposing
diverting
staying
stuffing
stanching
closing off
shutting off
packing
closing
blocking up
stopping up
choking up
bunging up
jamming up
occluding
blocking off
bunging
stoppering
congesting
plugging up
contravening
invalidating
snookering
debarring
putting off
putting a damper on
turning off
repelling
baffling
discomfiting
confounding
deterring
nobbling
undoing
parrying
rattling
counterplotting
blanking
crossing
disappointing
upsetting the applecart
holding up
screwing up
getting the better of
taking wind out of sails
lousing up
putting end to
putting the mockers on
fouling up
causing setback
more ❯
“A fearful parent may become quick to
slap down
any attempts by the child to develop autonomy.”
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