Definitions
censure severely or angrily
Word origin
From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).
Used in a sentence
“Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.”
“Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!”
“I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.”
I know, [she talks] too much: / I find that, when I have desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And '''scolds''' me with her thoughts.
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Scold gently”5 letters
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