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单词 berate
释义

beratev.

/bɪˈreɪt/
Etymology: < be- prefix 2 + rate v.1 This word appears to have become rare in the 19th cent. in England, but remained in common use in U.S., whence we have many 19th cent. instances.
transitive. To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold
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ban1340
tongue1388
rate1393
flite14..
rehetec1400
janglec1430
chafec1485
rattle1542
berate1548
quarrel1587
hazen?1608
bequarrel1624
huff1674
shrewa1687
to claw away, off1692
tongue-pad1707
to blow up1710
scold1718
rag1739
redd1776
bullyraga1790
jaw1810
targe1825
haze1829
overhaul1840
tongue-walk1841
trim1882
to call down1883
tongue-lash1887
roar1917
to go off at (a person)1941
chew1948
wrinch2009
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark xv. (R.) So is the veritie of the gospell berated and laughed to skorne of the miscreantes.
1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes ii. xiii. 158 They all berated him for occupying his heade aboute questions nothing appertaining unto him.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 162 Antony..fell into a furious fit of choler, and all to berated..Toranius.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. vi. i. 386 Never was unlucky prince more soundly berated by his superiors.
1864 E. Sargent Peculiar III. 290 An ancient virago..was berating a butcher.
1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond III. xii. 214 What! You think he was not punished enough when he was berated and torn to shreds in your presence?
1881 Boston Lit. World 22 Oct. 365/2 Berating Puritanism in his diary.
1893 Times 1 Feb. 9/5 The famous allocution in which he [sc. Sir James Mathew] berated Lord Clanricarde before a single witness had been heard.
1952 M. Laski Village xvii. 238 She perceived that Miss Evadne was not antagonistic, had not sent for her to berate her.
1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. 834/1 ‘She is..an assiduous toady, and a petty thief.’ Further to berate her or the book would be supererogatory.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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