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What does castigate mean?

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Verb
  1. To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.
  2. To revise or make corrections to a publication.
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By that I mean that we understand when people do not succeed, rather than castigate them for their difficulties.
But she always finds others to castigate for their immorality and selfishness, rarely copping to what she would call a decadent lifestyle if another woman lived it.
A little more discipline in thought would be appropriate before we castigate the bird colonels and stars.
Mirroring the shallowness of hawks, who condemn peaceniks for their lack of patriotism, many doves castigate anyone who is not opposed to war.
This is usually not done in a deliberate attempt to castigate such children for their behaviour, but for lack of an alternative.
The most common response was to castigate the reporter for daring to criticize a sacred cow hereabouts, weblogs.

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