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CASTIGATE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does castigate mean?

• CASTIGATE (verb)
The verb CASTIGATE has 2 senses:

1. censure severely
2. inflict severe punishment on

Familiarity information: CASTIGATE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CASTIGATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Censure severely

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

castigate; chasten; chastise; objurgate; correct

Context example:

She chastised him for his insensitive remarks

Hypernyms (to "castigate" is one way to...):

bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce (censure severely or angrily)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "castigate"):

flame (criticize harshly, on the e-mail)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Inflict severe punishment on

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "castigate" is one way to...):

penalise; penalize; punish (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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