reprimand
[verb]
Synonyms:
- blame, censure, dress down (informal), haul over the coals (informal), rap over the knuckles, rebuke, scold, tear (someone) off a strip (Brit. informal)
[noun]
Synonyms:
- blame, censure, dressing-down (informal), rebuke, reproach, reproof, talking-to (informal)

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English Thesaurus: reprimand, scold, tell somebody off, give somebody a talking-to, lecture, ...

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rep‧ri‧mand /ˈreprəmɑːnd, ˈreprɪmɑːnd $ -mænd/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: réprimande, from Latin, from reprimere; ⇒ repress]
to tell someone officially that something they have done is very wrong ⇒ scold, tell off
reprimand somebody for (doing) something
The military court reprimanded him for failing to do his duty.
—reprimand noun [countable]:
a severe reprimand

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reprimand
noun
ADJ. severe | public | verbal, written
VERB + REPRIMAND earn (yourself), get, receive The manager earned himself a severe reprimand for criticizing the referee.
give sb, issue (sb with) She was issued with a reprimand for leaking the news.
PREP. ~ for a reprimand for a breach of the rules

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reprimand
verb
ADV. severely | gently | officially | publicly
PREP. for She was severely reprimanded for accepting the money.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

reprimand formal to tell someone that they have done something wrong or illegal and are being punished for it – used especially in official contexts:
The police officers were officially reprimanded for their behaviour.
The Swiss authorities severely reprimanded the banks for accepting $660million from the former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.
Debra remembered as a very young child being reprimanded by her father.
scold formal if a parent, teacher, or other adult scolds a child, they talk to them angrily because they have done something wrong. Scold sounds rather formal and old-fashioned. In everyday English people usually say tell somebody off:
I dreaded the thought of going home and being scolded by my father.
tell somebody off to talk angrily to someone because they have done something wrong. Tell somebody off is more common in British English than American English:
Dad told me off for getting home late.
give somebody a talking-to informal to talk angrily to a child because they have done something wrong:
The boy was giving a good talking-to and sent home.
lecture to talk angrily to someone for a long time about something they have done wrong, especially in a way that they think is not necessary or fair:
Stop lecturing me, will you!
He began to lecture her about her duties as a citizen.
rebuke formal to tell someone that they should not have done something:
She rebuked him for being late.
Sheerman rebuked his colleague for suggesting that he was too stupid to understand what he was saying.
reproach formal to talk to someone in a way that shows you are disappointed at what they have done. Reproach sounds much gentler than criticizing someone or reprimanding them:
He felt he had to reproach his friend for his excessive drinking.
berate formal to publicly criticize someone for a long time, in a way that shows you strongly disapprove of what they have done:
She berated the paper for its 'misleading front-page story.'
Kennedy berated the Eisenhower administration and its vice president Richard Nixon, during the 1960 campaign.

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