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单词 objurgate
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Definition of objurgate in English:

objurgate

verb ˈɒbdʒəɡeɪtˈäbjərˌɡāt
[with object]rare
  • Rebuke severely; scold.

    the old man objurgated his son
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In ‘The high cost of low prices’, you objurgate the chain store for its business practices.
    • ‘I objurgate the centipede,/ A bug we do not really need,’ writes Ogden Nash.
    • And I will objurgate and distance myself from any of my fellow countrymen and women who do so
    • But I highly objurgate (word of the day calendars are wonderful things) his stealing my boyfriend's song.
    • In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.
    Synonyms
    criticize, censure, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, savage, find fault with, fulminate against, abuse

Derivatives

  • objurgation

  • noun ɒbdʒəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n
    rare
    • He looked for a moment as if he was going to break out with a torrent of objurgation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The objurgation does not sound like an English papa laying down the law to his errant offspring.
      • Were we stung into action by the snide objurgation from members of the public?
      • NELLO swung his pushcart a little closer to the curb to escape the wheels of a passing dray, at the same time hurling a flood of objurgation at the driver.
      • Punk music, with its live-fast ethos and objurgation of the status quo, never was meant to last long.
  • objurgatory

  • adjective ɒbˈdʒəːɡət(ə)ri
    rare
    • He looked for a moment as if he was going to break out with a torrent of objurgation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But when he faced the work of a great living artist, Whistler, he dispraised it in such foul and objurgatory language that he was sued for libel and found guilty by the jury.
      • I think it takes a combination of growing older (and, presumably, wiser) and enduring significant objurgation by your advisor and thesis committee to precipitate change.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin objurgat- 'chided, rebuked', from the verb objurgare, based on jurgium 'strife'.

 
 

Definition of objurgate in US English:

objurgate

verbˈäbjərˌɡāt
[with object]rare
  • Rebuke severely; scold.

    the old man objurgated his son
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And I will objurgate and distance myself from any of my fellow countrymen and women who do so
    • In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.
    • But I highly objurgate (word of the day calendars are wonderful things) his stealing my boyfriend's song.
    • In ‘The high cost of low prices’, you objurgate the chain store for its business practices.
    • ‘I objurgate the centipede,/ A bug we do not really need,’ writes Ogden Nash.
    Synonyms
    criticize, censure, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, savage, find fault with, fulminate against, abuse

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin objurgat- ‘chided, rebuked’, from the verb objurgare, based on jurgium ‘strife’.

 
 
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