Pronunciations (3)
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/t͡ʃaɪd/
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/t͡ʃɛɪd/
Pronunciation notes
- Northumbria
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tʃaɪd
Verb
To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
Usage- Literary
- Transitive
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Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!
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I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.
Yet didn't you ſee, yet didn't you ſee, What naughty tricks they put upon me: They broke my pitcher, And ſpilt the water, And huff'd my mother, And chid her daughter, And kiſs'd my ſiſter inſtead of me.
Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.
To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Obsolete
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Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
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[…] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.
Verb
censure severely or angrily
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
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The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
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The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup