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objurgating

objurgating is the present participle and gerund of objurgate.

Meaning of objurgate

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
  2. (intransitive) To remonstrate, complain, to rail against.

Questions about objurgating

What is objurgating the present participle and gerund of?
Objurgating is the present participle and gerund of objurgate.

Words near objurgating in the dictionary

  1. objured
  2. objures
  3. objurgate
  4. objurgated
  5. objurgates
  6. objurgating
  7. objurgation
  8. objurgations
  9. objurgative
  10. objurgatively
  11. objurgator

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