chide Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb censure severely or angrily
    call on the carpet; rag; dress down; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
    • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
    • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
    • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

WordNet

Chide transitive verb
Etymology
imp. Chid or Chode (Obs.); p. p. Chidden Chid; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiding.
AS. cidan; of unknown origin.
Definitions
  1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
    Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.
  2. Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against.
    The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak.
    Syn. -- To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach; reprehend; reprimand.
Chide intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
    Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. Ex. xvii. 2.
  2. To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
    As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. Shak.
Chide noun
Etymology
AS. cid
Definitions
  1. A continuous noise or murmur.
    The chide of streams. Thomson.

Webster 1913