| 单词 | castigation |
| 释义 | castigation (once / 15410 pages) n If your coach yells at your team for sloppy play, his post-game speech might be called a castigation. A castigation is a harsh verbal reprimand. No one likes to be on the receiving end of a castigation. The word comes from the Latin castigus which means "to make pure." Try to remember during a castigation that the castigator is, in their own misguided way, trying to make you a better person. But that may be hard to think of when someone is bawling you out. WORD FAMILYcastigation: castigations+/castigate: castigated, castigates, castigating, castigation USAGE EXAMPLESForget radical, even being labeled “political”, which is code for opposing the civic status quo, is a kind of castigation. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) Her body is a source of glory and terror, beauty and castigation; it belongs to her deeply, and to everyone else, too. The New Yorker(Aug 11, 2016) The GOP’s emphasis on the “exceptionalism” of America — and its castigation of Democrats as questioning U.S. supremacy — served as the icing. Los Angeles Times(Jul 31, 2016) 1n verbal punishment Syn|Hyper chastisement penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment the act of punishing 2n a severe scolding Syn|Hyper bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval an act or expression of criticism and censure |
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