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chide

/ t͡ʃaɪd/

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Northumbria/t͡ʃɛɪd/

chide verb: to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

Verb

chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid or chided or chode, past participle chid or chided or chode or chidden)

  1. (literary, transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
    • Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward.
      Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, scene 1
    • Whiles you chid me, I did love;
      How then might your prayers move!c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 4, scene 3
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
    • 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?1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 31:36
  3. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
    • 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?c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1
    • […] 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.c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 3, scene 2

chide meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

chide in Tamil

கடிந்து கொள், குறை காண்

chide in Urdu

ڈانٹنا, جھڑکنا, سنانا, طعن کرنا

chide in Malayalam

ശാസിക്കുക, ശകാരിക്കുക

chide in Kannada

ಬಾಯಿ ಮಾಡು, ಜಬ್ಬರಿಸು, ಗದರಿಸು, ಅಟ್ಟಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ತರಾಟೆಗೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊ, ಛೀಮಾರಿಹಾಕು
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chide in Arabic
قَرَّعَ qarraʕa, وَبَّخَ wabbaḵa
chide in Persian
شخولیدن šexulidan, سرکوفت زدن sarkuft zadan
chide in Vietnamese
mắng

Examples of chide in a sentence

  • 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.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas]...
  • 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.1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

Forms of chide

third-person singular presentchides
present participlechiding
pastchid
pastchided
pastchode
past participlechid
past participlechided
past participlechode
past participlechidden

Past tense of chide: chid or chided

Origin of chide

From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).

Words formed from chide

Words that rhyme with chide

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Questions about chide

What does chide mean?
Chide means to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
What is chide in Tamil?
Chide in Tamil is கடிந்து கொள், குறை காண். See Chide meaning in Tamil.
How do you use chide in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is chide?
Chide is a verb.
How do you pronounce chide?
Chide is pronounced / t͡ʃaɪd/.
What is the past tense of chide?
The past tense of chide is chid.

Words near chide in the dictionary

  1. chidamide
  2. chidden
  3. chiddest
  4. Chiddingfold
  5. Chiddingstone
  6. chide
  7. chided
  8. Chideock
  9. chider
  10. chideress
  11. chideresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chide (page history and authors); chide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chide (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chide (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chide (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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