Definition of berate in English:

berate

verb bɪˈreɪtbəˈreɪt

[with object]

Scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
she berated herself for being fickle
Example sentencesExamples
- He says she berates him in the car when he picks her up for church on Sundays.
- When William falls in love, James berates him, and their relations remain needlessly strained until near the end.
- Then the mom starts berating the kids about their behavior and saying that's why she never takes them anywhere.
- Besides, is berating your guest as has become the custom these days the only way to get information out of someone?
- His mother came out and berated me for raising my voice and scaring Zack.
- In it, he denounces Peggy and berates his daughter for not replying to an earlier letter.
- The episode they tuned into featured a mother berating her son who has just returned home after years of fighting alongside the rebels.
- He was unharmed after eight days' confinement, but he berated his wife for paying so much so soon.
- She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them.
- I read one where the whole thing starts with him being berated for being out of shape.
- Why must people be berated for telling the truth just because some people don't agree with it.
- Angry trade unionists berated candidates as privatisation of the rail industry swept on to the election stage.
- Protests poured in from jewellery houses and designers, berating me for ruining their business.
- But in the meantime, let's stop berating men for not being perfect.
- At one point, she would be berating her colleagues and the next minute she would be laughing and smiling with them like it was business as usual.
- We were in a theater and she was berating me for wearing open toe sandals when it was cold out.
- My husband already berates me for running the children to nursery in the car.
- She berates us for publishing league tables of school achievement that are incomplete, yet will not provide the information that would make those school comparisons more compelling reading for parents.
- Instead, he berates the man for having lied about it.
- I placed my permit on the dashboard, but had not even got out of the vehicle before an elderly man in an adjacent car began berating me for parking there.
Synonyms
rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure
informal tell off, give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, let someone have it, send someone away with a flea in their ear, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up at, pitch into, lay into, lace into, tear into, give someone a caning, put on the mat, slap down, blast, rag, keelhaul
British informal tick off, have a go at, monster, carpet, give someone a carpeting, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, tear a strip off someone, give someone what for, give someone some stick, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row
North American informal chew out, ream out, take to the woodshed
British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking
North American vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass
dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim
rare reprehend, objurgate

Origin

Mid 16th century: from be- 'thoroughly' + rate².

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight

Definition of berate in US English:

berate

verbbəˈrātbəˈreɪt

[with object]

Scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
his mother came out and berated me for raising my voice
Example sentencesExamples
- I read one where the whole thing starts with him being berated for being out of shape.
- He was unharmed after eight days' confinement, but he berated his wife for paying so much so soon.
- Protests poured in from jewellery houses and designers, berating me for ruining their business.
- His mother came out and berated me for raising my voice and scaring Zack.
- She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them.
- We were in a theater and she was berating me for wearing open toe sandals when it was cold out.
- The episode they tuned into featured a mother berating her son who has just returned home after years of fighting alongside the rebels.
- My husband already berates me for running the children to nursery in the car.
- In it, he denounces Peggy and berates his daughter for not replying to an earlier letter.
- Then the mom starts berating the kids about their behavior and saying that's why she never takes them anywhere.
- When William falls in love, James berates him, and their relations remain needlessly strained until near the end.
- He says she berates him in the car when he picks her up for church on Sundays.
- Why must people be berated for telling the truth just because some people don't agree with it.
- Angry trade unionists berated candidates as privatisation of the rail industry swept on to the election stage.
- Instead, he berates the man for having lied about it.
- Besides, is berating your guest as has become the custom these days the only way to get information out of someone?
- She berates us for publishing league tables of school achievement that are incomplete, yet will not provide the information that would make those school comparisons more compelling reading for parents.
- I placed my permit on the dashboard, but had not even got out of the vehicle before an elderly man in an adjacent car began berating me for parking there.
- At one point, she would be berating her colleagues and the next minute she would be laughing and smiling with them like it was business as usual.
- But in the meantime, let's stop berating men for not being perfect.
Synonyms
rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the riot act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure

Origin

Mid 16th century: from be- ‘thoroughly’ + rate.

单词	berate
释义	Definition of berate in English: berate verb bɪˈreɪtbəˈreɪt [with object] Scold or criticize (someone) angrily. she berated herself for being fickle Example sentencesExamples He says she berates him in the car when he picks her up for church on Sundays. When William falls in love, James berates him, and their relations remain needlessly strained until near the end. Then the mom starts berating the kids about their behavior and saying that's why she never takes them anywhere. Besides, is berating your guest as has become the custom these days the only way to get information out of someone? His mother came out and berated me for raising my voice and scaring Zack. In it, he denounces Peggy and berates his daughter for not replying to an earlier letter. The episode they tuned into featured a mother berating her son who has just returned home after years of fighting alongside the rebels. He was unharmed after eight days' confinement, but he berated his wife for paying so much so soon. She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them. I read one where the whole thing starts with him being berated for being out of shape. Why must people be berated for telling the truth just because some people don't agree with it. Angry trade unionists berated candidates as privatisation of the rail industry swept on to the election stage. Protests poured in from jewellery houses and designers, berating me for ruining their business. But in the meantime, let's stop berating men for not being perfect. At one point, she would be berating her colleagues and the next minute she would be laughing and smiling with them like it was business as usual. We were in a theater and she was berating me for wearing open toe sandals when it was cold out. My husband already berates me for running the children to nursery in the car. She berates us for publishing league tables of school achievement that are incomplete, yet will not provide the information that would make those school comparisons more compelling reading for parents. Instead, he berates the man for having lied about it. I placed my permit on the dashboard, but had not even got out of the vehicle before an elderly man in an adjacent car began berating me for parking there. Synonyms rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure informal tell off, give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, let someone have it, send someone away with a flea in their ear, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up at, pitch into, lay into, lace into, tear into, give someone a caning, put on the mat, slap down, blast, rag, keelhaul British informal tick off, have a go at, monster, carpet, give someone a carpeting, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, tear a strip off someone, give someone what for, give someone some stick, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row North American informal chew out, ream out, take to the woodshed British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking North American vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim rare reprehend, objurgate Origin Mid 16th century: from be- 'thoroughly' + rate². Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of berate in US English: berate verbbəˈrātbəˈreɪt [with object] Scold or criticize (someone) angrily. his mother came out and berated me for raising my voice Example sentencesExamples I read one where the whole thing starts with him being berated for being out of shape. He was unharmed after eight days' confinement, but he berated his wife for paying so much so soon. Protests poured in from jewellery houses and designers, berating me for ruining their business. His mother came out and berated me for raising my voice and scaring Zack. She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them. We were in a theater and she was berating me for wearing open toe sandals when it was cold out. The episode they tuned into featured a mother berating her son who has just returned home after years of fighting alongside the rebels. My husband already berates me for running the children to nursery in the car. In it, he denounces Peggy and berates his daughter for not replying to an earlier letter. Then the mom starts berating the kids about their behavior and saying that's why she never takes them anywhere. When William falls in love, James berates him, and their relations remain needlessly strained until near the end. He says she berates him in the car when he picks her up for church on Sundays. Why must people be berated for telling the truth just because some people don't agree with it. Angry trade unionists berated candidates as privatisation of the rail industry swept on to the election stage. Instead, he berates the man for having lied about it. Besides, is berating your guest as has become the custom these days the only way to get information out of someone? She berates us for publishing league tables of school achievement that are incomplete, yet will not provide the information that would make those school comparisons more compelling reading for parents. I placed my permit on the dashboard, but had not even got out of the vehicle before an elderly man in an adjacent car began berating me for parking there. At one point, she would be berating her colleagues and the next minute she would be laughing and smiling with them like it was business as usual. But in the meantime, let's stop berating men for not being perfect. Synonyms rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the riot act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure Origin Mid 16th century: from be- ‘thoroughly’ + rate.
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