chastise
/tʃæˈstaɪz/US/ˈt͡ʃæstaɪz/
chastise verb: to punish, especially by corporal punishment.
Verb
chastise (third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised)
- To punish, especially by corporal punishment.
- And now whereas my father did lade you with a heauy yoke, I wil adde to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whippes, but I will chastise you with scorpions.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 12:11
- An army was sent to chastise an unoffending people; to subdue an imaginary insurrection.1885 May 2, John Thomas Caine, edited by John Irvine, “Mormon” Protest Against Injustice: An Appeal for Constitutional and Religious Liberty, published 1885, page 12
- To castigate; to scold or censure.
- She feels definitely that Lung Shing is her town, and is not hesitant to chastise people who she thinks are not behaving properly—such as, for example, a woman using loud, vulgar language on the street—although in so doing she may only turn the direction of abuse on herself.1975, Cornelius Osgood, The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community, volume 2, →ISBN, page 485
- Only last year Attorney General Edwin Meese chastised the Supreme Court for a series of decisions based on the legal doctrine of “indoctrination”—that is, that the 14th Amendment requires the states to respect the prohibitions on abuse of power that the Bill of Rights had originally applied to the...1987 September, Eric Foner, The Second American Revolution; republished as “The Second American Revolution”, in Bertell Ollman, Jonathan Birnbaum, editors, The United States Constitution: 200 Years...
chastise meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
chastise in Tamil
- திருத்தும் நோக்குடன் கண்டி, தண்டி, ஒறு
chastise in Urdu
- علاج کرنا, لتاڑنا, صحیح کرنا, سیدھا کرنا
chastise in Bengali
- তিরস্কার করা, কঠোরভাবে সমালোচনা, শাস্তি দেওয়া
chastise in Malayalam
- ശിക്ഷിക്കുക, വിമർശിക്കുക, വഴക്കുപറയുക
More languagesFewer languages
- chastise in Kannada
- ಹೊಡೆದು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸು, ದಂಡಿಸು, ಶಿಕ್ಷಿಸು
- chastise in Odia
- ତାଡ଼ିବା tāṛibā
Examples of chastise in a sentence
- Thus only the husband is in a position to chastise her, for his own relatives may not exert any physical force over her.1958, Elizabeth Colson, Marriage and the Family among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia, page 142:
- If even Israel, the people chosen to be God’s own, scorned and neglected the values God had revealed to be what God willed and desired, then God would marshal the forces of history to chastise them.1996, William P. Loewe, The College Student’s Introduction to Christology, →ISBN, page 46:
- “There is a man who must be chastised,” she says softly, lightly.2018, Nyx Smith, Shadowrun Legends: Striper Assassin, Catalyst Game Labs:
- My urban, academic friends chastise me for romanticizing rural life.1995, Douglas E. Foley, The Heartland Chronicles, →ISBN, page viii:
Synonyms of chastise
- chasten
- penalize
- amerce
- castigate
- come down on
- correct
- fix someone's wagon
- have someone's guts for garters
- have someone's head
- have someone's hide
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- give it to someone
- give someone what for
- give what for
- gruel
- nail someone to the wall
- penance
- punish
- tan someone's hide
- teach someone a lesson
- admonish
- animadvert
- bash
- bawl out
- tilt
- cannonade
- slash
- lash
- blame
- scorch
- blast
- berate
- censure
- charge
- chew out
- chide
- condemn
- criticize
- denounce
- denunciate
- deprecate
Forms of chastise
| third-person singular present | chastises |
|---|---|
| present participle | chastising |
| past participle | chastised |
| past | chastised |
| alternative form (nonstandard, obsolete) | chastize |
Origin of chastise
From Middle English chastisen, from Old French chastier, from Latin castīgō. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.
Words formed from chastise
Words that rhyme with chastise
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- arise
- capsize
- comprise
- guise
- revise
- abscise
- agrise
- apprise
- despise
- flys
- guys
- lyse
- palatalize
- pies
- prise
- skies
- snies
- sties
- supplies
- surmise
- ties
- tries
- velarize
- aguise
- applies
- authorize
- ayes
- belies
- brise
- buys
- byes
- complies
- cries
- dies
- dries
- dyes
- excise
- eyes
- flies
- flyes
- four eyes
- frankenpies
- fries
- Frise
- hies
- highs
- home fries
- i's
Questions about chastise
- What does chastise mean?
- Chastise means to punish, especially by corporal punishment.
- What is chastise in Tamil?
- Chastise in Tamil is திருத்தும் நோக்குடன் கண்டி, தண்டி, ஒறு. See Chastise meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use chastise in a sentence?
- Thus only the husband is in a position to chastise her, for his own relatives may not exert any physical force over her.
- What part of speech is chastise?
- Chastise is a verb.
- How do you pronounce chastise?
- Chastise is pronounced /tʃæˈstaɪz/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of chastise?
- The past tense of chastise is chastised.
Words near chastise in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chastise (page history and authors); chastise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chastise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Chastise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chastise (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chastise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ତାଡ଼ିବା (Odia) (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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