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Chastise meaning

  1. To punish, especially by corporal punishment.
  2. To castigate; to scold or censure.

Synonyms of Chastise

castigate call down dress down jaw reprimand lecture reproof trounce rag rebuke take to task correct chasten objurgate scold

Using Chastise

  • The main meaning on this page is: To punish, especially by corporal punishment. | To castigate; to scold or censure.
  • Useful related words include: castigate, call down, dress down, jaw.
  • In the example corpus, chastise often appears in combinations such as: to chastise, chastise his, and chastise.

Context around Chastise

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Chastise

  • In this selection, "chastise" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, operation, publicly, physically, lepage, quarantine and banks stand out and add context to how "chastise" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include as to chastise his good and confront and chastise spousal and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "chastise" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with chastise

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Rather than chastise her, Stark gave her his boast of confidence. (11 words)

You can chastise me all you want of my vote; Zac Efron! (12 words)

Vladimir decided to chastise the insolence of his son and began gathering troops against him. (15 words)

He is at all times surrounded by unknown enemies, whom, though he never provoked, he can never appease, and from whose injustice he can be protected only by the powerful arm of the civil magistrate continually held up to chastise it. (41 words)

He went on to chastise the PM for several poor choices for leadership positions and ended by saying we have vested far too much power in one man, with results we can now plainly see. (35 words)

They are often quite scary spirits, and parents may warn their children that if they misbehave, a spirit will emerge from the spinning vortex of dirt and chastise them. (29 words)

You can chastise me all you want of my vote; Zac Efron! (12 words)

Example sentences (19)

He even went so far as to chastise his good friend Kallen for being overly secular and for reducing his sense of Jewishness to mere ethnicity.

He went on to chastise the PM for several poor choices for leadership positions and ended by saying we have vested far too much power in one man, with results we can now plainly see.

The mess hall was used by those involved in Operation Chastise, one of the most well-known operations of the Second World War.

While I agree that the right thing must be recognized do not chastise some when they are not PNM operatives.

You can chastise me all you want of my vote; Zac Efron!

But not once did I see a sign or bumper sticker that did any more than chastise LePage in decent, aboveboard terminology.

Employing another two dozen health officials to track and chastise quarantine breakers is ludicrously insufficient too.

Fans used these videos to chastise Banks for her harsh criticisms of people that don't adhere to her standards of beauty.

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Rather than chastise her, Stark gave her his boast of confidence.

Abeiku Santana dared Nana Aba Anamoah to use the “same energy to chastise Cardi B who after all, is just a former stripper for disgracing Ghanaian female celebrities”.

Suddenly, social media was abuzz with vulva and vagina chat as women came forward to chastise Bullen for his mistake.

There were swift calls for his sacking and the BBC felt compelled to publicly chastise Neil.

He went on to chastise radio employers for only looking for people with phonetics without considering whether they have broadcasting ethics.

He is at all times surrounded by unknown enemies, whom, though he never provoked, he can never appease, and from whose injustice he can be protected only by the powerful arm of the civil magistrate continually held up to chastise it.

In the 1870s, courts in the United States overruled the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife".

They are often quite scary spirits, and parents may warn their children that if they misbehave, a spirit will emerge from the spinning vortex of dirt and chastise them.

Villechaize's former co-workers recalled that despite his stature, he would often confront and chastise spousal and child abusers when he arrived at crime scenes.

Vladimir decided to chastise the insolence of his son and began gathering troops against him.

Whereas my father chastised (tortured) you with whips, so shall I chastise you with scorpions.

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Common combinations with chastise

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "chastise" in a sentence?
An example: "He even went so far as to chastise his good friend Kallen for being overly secular and for reducing his sense of Jewishness to mere ethnicity." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "chastise" from authentic English texts.
What does "chastise" mean?
Chastise means: To punish, especially by corporal punishment.
What are synonyms of "chastise"?
Common synonyms of "chastise" include: castigate, call down, dress down, jaw, reprimand, lecture, reproof, trounce. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "chastise" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "chastise", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.