To revile.

transitive. To rebuke or reproach (a person) violently. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

transitive. To subject to insult or abuse; to talk to or criticize in an abusive, angry, or insulting manner; to rail at. Also figurative.

To rail at, revile, scold, rate; or ? to drive away. (If the latter is the sense, cf. Shakespeare's aroint, v.)

figurative. To vilify in words, abuse. Obsolete.

transitive. To chide, scold, revile. Obsolete.

transitive. To vituperate or revile; to dishonour or disgrace.

transitive. To subject (a person or animal) to insult or abuse; to rail at; to reproach.

to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught: to attack verbally; to denounce with passion. Cf. nought, pron. 2d. Now rare.

transitive. To scold or berate; to rail at. Now rare.

transitive. To blame, speak ill of, find fault with, in strong or violent language; to assail with abuse; to rate or revile.

figurative. To bespatter with abuse, to vilify.

figurative. To befoul, stain, disfigure; to asperse, to cover with abuse.

transitive. To asperse or befoul with anything spurted or spirted on; also figurative.

To set upon a person with hostile language. Obsolete.

transitive. To speak evil of; to abuse verbally; to deride. Obsolete.

= clapperclaw, v.

transitive. To speak insultingly or unkindly of or to (a person); to malign, revile, vilify (a person or thing).

transitive. To rant at, harangue.

To attack violently (a doctrine, error, fault, etc.); to inveigh against, rail at.

figurative and in figurative context. to shoot at: to assail with censure or contempt. Obsolete.

figurative. To assail with words.

transferred. To cleanse (the teeth) by chewing some substance. Also, †to scour one's mouth on, to abuse, vilify.

figurative. To asperse with reproach or abuse; to spot or sully with vice.

transitive. To revile, reproach, slander, rail at.

(a) To spread scandal concerning (a person); to defame. Now archaic and dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). †(b) To vituperate, revile. Obsolete.

intransitive. To utter vehement or abusive language about or towards a person with whom one disagrees or whom one wishes to reprove; to rant, rail ag…

transitive. To assail with the tongue; to flout, rally.

figurative. To asperse (with abuse, blame, flattery, praise, etc.). Generally in a bad sense even when praise is in question.

intransitive. To speak furiously; to storm or rage violently. Frequently with at, against. In later use passing into sense 1e.

transitive. figurative. To hurl abuse at; to denigrate. Cf. pelt, v.1 3b.

transitive. To speak abusively or contemptuously of or to; to reproach; to vilify.

transitive. To attack with written or verbal insults; to throw abuse at.

transitive. To rend, tear; (figurative) to berate, reproach.

transitive. To attack or assail with words. rare.

figurative. To revile, abuse.

transitive. To treat as a blackguard; to abuse or revile scurrilously.

intransitive. To deliver a philippic; to fulminate. Also transitive: to deliver a philippic against (a person).

figurative. To belabour with abuse.

transitive. To abuse (a person) verbally; to insult, disparage, or slander (someone).

transitive. To assail with abusive language.

To use (a person) as a target. Also figurative.

transitive. To abuse or ‘slang’ (a person).

intransitive. To attack (a person or animal) physically. Also: to launch a verbal attack on (a person).

transitive. To abuse or scold violently.

To treat or revile as a villain.

transitive and intransitive. To assail with, to make use of, violent language, abuse, or vituperation.

transitive. To assail violently.

transitive. To vituperate.

transitive. To abuse or deprecate verbally; to criticize, slander, or gossip maliciously about (a person or thing); to disparage, ‘run down’.

transitive. colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English). To abuse or denigrate (a person or thing); to criticize or gossip maliciously about (a…

transitive. To subject (a person, organization, etc.) to sharp criticism.

intransitive. Chiefly North American. In slang phrase to dump on (occasionally all over) (a person), to criticize or abuse (someone); to better in…