harangued

Verb

harangue (third-person singular simple present harangues, present participle haranguing, simple past and past participle harangued)

1. (ambitransitive) To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.
   • The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver.

   Synonyms:

   admonish, berate, lecture

2. (transitive) To deliver a public address to.
   • He is part of the landscape now—out there every Saturday night, haranguing the crowd round the soldiers’ monument, with a bronze Civil War infantryman standing guard over his head to assure him a hearing or his constitutional rights or something.1920 November 20, James H. Collins, “When Soap Box Meets Soap Box”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 193, number 21, page 19

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