Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chide"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chide \Chide\ (ch[imac]d), v. t. [imp. {Chid} (ch[i^]d), or
{Chode} (ch[imac]d Obs.); p. p. {Chidden}, {Chid}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Chiding}.] [AS. c[=i]dan; of unknown origin.]
1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Upbraided, chid, and rated at. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
The sea that chides the banks of England. --Shak.
{To} {chide hither, chide from, or chide away}, to cause to
come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.
Syn: To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach;
reprehend; reprimand.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chide \Chide\, v. i.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chide \Chide\, n. [AS. c[=i]d]
A continuous noise or murmur.
The chide of streams. --Thomson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
chide
v : censure severely or angrily; "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"; "check" is archaic [syn: {rebuke},
{rag}, {trounce}, {reproof}, {lecture}, {reprimand}, {jaw},
{dress down}, {scold}, {berate}, {bawl out}, {remonstrate},
{chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
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