berate
/bɪˈɹeɪt/
berate verb: to chide or scold vehemently.
Verb
berate (third-person singular simple present berates, present participle berating, simple past and past participle berated)
- To chide or scold vehemently.
- What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well?
- Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness.1896, Gilbert Parker, chapter 13, in Seats Of The Mighty
berate meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
berate in Urdu
- سرزنش کرنا
berate in Bengali
- তীব্র ভর্ৎসনা করা
berate in Malayalam
- reprimand, scold, rebuke
- ഭർത്സിക്കുക, പരുഷമായി ശകാരിക്കുക, ഗർഹിക്കുക, വിഗർഹിക്കുക, ശകാരിക്കുക, വായ്പറക
berate in Kannada
- ಗಜರು, ಜಂಕಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
- berate in Arabic
- سَبَّ sabba, شَاتَمَ šātama, شَتَمَ šatama, لَحَا laḥā
Examples of berate in a sentence
- A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as...
- During the rally, he berates the crowd for their cowardice.2008 November 27, Alex Perry, “The Man Who Would Be (Congo's) King”, in Time:
Forms of berate
| third-person singular present | berates |
|---|---|
| present participle | berating |
| past participle | berated |
| past | berated |
Origin of berate
From be- + rate (“to scold, upbraid”).
Words formed from berate
Words that rhyme with berate
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about berate
- What does berate mean?
- Berate means to chide or scold vehemently.
- What is berate in Urdu?
- Berate in Urdu is سرزنش کرنا. See Berate meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use berate in a sentence?
- A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.
- What part of speech is berate?
- Berate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce berate?
- Berate is pronounced /bɪˈɹeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of berate?
- The past tense of berate is berated.
Words near berate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: berate (page history and authors); berate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); berate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); berate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); berate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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