| 释义 | 
		chastenchas‧ten /ˈtʃeɪsən/ verb [transitive] formal    chastenOrigin: 1500-1600 chaste  ‘to chasten’ (12-17 centuries), from Old French chastier, from Latin castigare;  ➔ CASTIGATE  VERB TABLEchasten |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | chasten |   | he, she, it | chastens |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | chastened |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have chastened |   | he, she, it | has chastened |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had chastened |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will chasten |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have chastened |  
    - Military leaders, chastened by Vietnam, have learned to be cautious.
 
 - Even Commissioner Shack seemed chastened by the loss.
 - His expression seems dour, chastened around the edges.
 - Most of them turn up chastened the following morning.
 - The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying.
 - They were not to be chastened by homilies like children at a Sunday school.
 - Too late to admit us, he stood, chastened, and confessed he'd been knocked out.
 
    to make someone realize that their behaviour was wrong or mistaken:   Party workers have returned to their home towns, chastened by their overwhelming defeat.GRAMMAR Chasten is usually passive.—chastening adjective:   a chastening experience  |