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umbraid

umbraid verb: to upbraid.

Verb

umbraid (third-person singular simple present umbraids, present participle umbraiding, simple past and past participle umbraided)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To upbraid.

Noun

umbraid (plural umbraids)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) Contention; strife.

Forms of umbraid

Verb
third-person singular presentumbraids
present participleumbraiding
past participleumbraided
pastumbraided
Noun
pluralumbraids

Origin of umbraid

From Middle English umbreiden (“to scold, reproach”). By surface analysis, um- + braid.

Words that rhyme with umbraid

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Questions about umbraid

What does umbraid mean?
Umbraid means to upbraid.
What part of speech is umbraid?
Umbraid can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of umbraid?
The past tense of umbraid is umbraided.

Words near umbraid in the dictionary

  1. umbrageous
  2. umbrageously
  3. umbrageousness
  4. umbrages
  5. umbraging
  6. umbraid
  7. umbraided
  8. umbraiding
  9. umbraids
  10. umbral
  11. umbral calculus

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