berate
Meaning of berate
- scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
she berated herself for being fickle
mid 16th century: from be- ‘thoroughly’ + rate2.
Information about berate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of berate is: berates.
- Languages in which berate is used:
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Hyphenation of berate
be-rate
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- berate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
berate synonyms
Meaning call on the carpet:
rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, scold, chide, remonstrate, lambaste, lambast
Meaning accuse someone of:
Meaning reprimand (someone):
Meaning warn or reprimand someone firmly:
Meaning rebuke or reprimand severely:
Meaning find fault with (someone); scold:
Meaning reprimand (someone) severely:
Meaning indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way:
Meaning express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement:
Meaning criticize severely:
Meaning criticize fiercely:
Meaning punish (someone) by dragging them through the water under the keel of a ship, either across the width or from bow to stern:
Meaning criticize or reprimand severely:
Meaning reprimand severely:
Meaning a covering for the head made of real or artificial hair, typically worn by judges and barristers in law courts or by people trying to conceal their baldness:
Meaning a number of people or things in a more or less straight line:
Meaning assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale:
Meaning make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts:
Meaning reprimand:
Meaning rebuke severely; scold:
berate antonyms
Meaning express warm approval or admiration of:
Translation of berate
- Spanish: amonestar, sermonear, increpar
- Italian: riprendere, ammonire, arringare
- French: haranguer, admonester, admonéter, sermoner
Anagrams of berate
beater, betear, Eberta, rebate, rebeat
Words that rhyme with berate
rate, Garate, Glucarate, Nazarate, Separate, acetylglutarate, alizarate, aminoglutarate, aminomethylglutarate, amylfumarate, azidomethylglutarate, bicalcarate, bromofumarate, bromoglutarate, bromoketoglutarate, bromostearate, calcarate, carate, chlorofumarate, comparate, coumarate, dibromostearate, dicyanofumarate, diepoxystearate, difluorofumarate, difumarate, dihydroxyfumarate, dihydroxystearate, diiodostearate, dimethylglutarate, disparate, distearate, ditartarate, ecalcarate, eleostearate, epithiostearate, epoxystearate, equiparate, exarate, excalcarate, exhilarate, fluorofumarate, fluoroglutarate, fluorostearate, fumarate, galactarate, glucarate, glutarate, gularate, hexafluoroglutarate