chastise

English

Alternative forms

• chastize (archaic in British English and rare in American English)

Etymology

From Old French chastier, from Latin castigo. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃæˈstaɪz/
• Rhymes: -aɪz

Verb

chastise (third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised)

1. To punish or scold someone.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

to punish or scold

• Bulgarian: нака́звам (bg) (nakázvam), би́я (bg) (bíja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 训斥 (zh)

• Danish: tugte
• Finnish: kurittaa (fi), nuhdella (fi), ojentaa (fi)
• French: châtier (fr)
• Hungarian: megfenyít (hu)
• Irish: ceartaigh
• Italian: castigare (it)

• Portuguese: castigar (pt)
• Russian: нака́зывать (ru) (nakázyvatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏знити

  Roman: kȁzniti (sh)

• Spanish: castigar (es), regañar (es), escarmentar (es)
• Swedish: skälla ut (sv), tukta (sv)

See also

• punish
• castigate