chastise
verb /tʃæˈstaɪz/
/tʃæˈstaɪz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they chastise | /tʃæˈstaɪz/ /tʃæˈstaɪz/ |
| he / she / it chastises | /tʃæˈstaɪzɪz/ /tʃæˈstaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple chastised | /tʃæˈstaɪzd/ /tʃæˈstaɪzd/ |
| past participle chastised | /tʃæˈstaɪzd/ /tʃæˈstaɪzd/ |
| -ing form chastising | /tʃæˈstaɪzɪŋ/ /tʃæˈstaɪzɪŋ/ |
- chastise somebody (for something/for doing something) (formal) to criticize somebody for doing something wrong
- He chastised the team for their lack of commitment.
- chastise somebody (old-fashioned) to punish somebody physically synonym beat
- Parents are no longer allowed to chastise their children as they did in the past.
Word OriginMiddle English: apparently formed irregularly from the obsolete verb chaste, from Old French chastier, from Latin castigare ‘castigate’, from castus ‘morally pure, chaste’.