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Word entry · 6 letters

rebuke

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"Sharp scolding"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ɹiˈbjuːk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted beekruStarts with REnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. censure severely or angrily

Word origin

From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin *busca (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- + bush.

Used in a sentence

  • U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.
  • O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

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