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objurgate

/ˈɒbd͡ʒəɡeɪt/US/ˈɑbd͡ʒəɹɡeɪt/

objurgate verb: to rebuke or scold strongly.

Verb

objurgate (third-person singular simple present objurgates, present participle objurgating, simple past and past participle objurgated)

  1. (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.
    • He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…]1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, volume 3, London: Macmillan and Co., page 190
    • When he saw his servant he rushed forward, and pressing the paper on him objurgated him, in tones which induced Ali to think that something awful had happened, to hurry up and get the whale-boat ready to go immediately—at once, at once—after Captain Lingard.1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To remonstrate, complain, to rail against.

objurgate meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

objurgate in Urdu

ڈانٹنا, طعن کرنا

objurgate in Bengali

তীব্র তিরস্কার, গালিগালাজ করা

objurgate in Kannada

ನಿಂದಿಸು, ಖಂಡಿಸು, ದೂಷಿಸು, ಛೇಡಿಸು, ಶಪಿಸು

Forms of objurgate

third-person singular presentobjurgates
present participleobjurgating
past participleobjurgated
pastobjurgated

Origin of objurgate

Borrowed from Latin obiūrgātus, perfect passive participle of obiūrgō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ob- (“to, against”) + iūrgō (“to dispute, chide”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.

Questions about objurgate

What does objurgate mean?
Objurgate means to rebuke or scold strongly.
What is objurgate in Urdu?
Objurgate in Urdu is ڈانٹنا, طعن کرنا. See Objurgate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is objurgate?
Objurgate is a verb.
How do you pronounce objurgate?
Objurgate is pronounced /ˈɒbd͡ʒəɡeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of objurgate?
The past tense of objurgate is objurgated.

Words near objurgate in the dictionary

  1. objurations
  2. objuratory
  3. objure
  4. objured
  5. objures
  6. objurgate
  7. objurgated
  8. objurgates
  9. objurgating
  10. objurgation
  11. objurgations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: objurgate (page history and authors); objurgate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); objurgate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); objurgate (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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