Definition of upbraid

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Upbraid (v. t.) To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.

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Reproachful :: Reproachful (a.) Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
Exprobratory :: Exprobratory (a.) Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful.
Epiplexis :: Epiplexis (n.) A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.
Atwite :: Atwite (v. t.) To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.
Taunt :: Taunt (v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
Upbraided :: Upbraided (imp. & p. p.) of Upbrai.
Upbraiding :: Upbraiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Upbrai.
Upcast :: Upcast (v. t.) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
Exprobrate :: Exprobrate (v. t.) To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.
Reproach :: Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To treat with contempt.
Embraid :: Embraid (v. t.) To upbraid.
Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.
Twit :: Twit (v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood..
Improperation :: Improperation (n.) The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.
Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed..
Taunt :: Taunt (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
Twitter :: Twitter (n.) One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider..
Twittingly :: Twittingly (adv.) In a twitting manner; with upbraiding.
Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.
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