upbraided

Verb

upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)

1. (transitive) To criticize severely.
   • How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...

   Synonyms:

   exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt

2. (archaic, transitive, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
   • Yet do not upbraid us our distress.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
   • There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
4. (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach
   • Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Envy”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   cast up

5. (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
6. (Northern England, UK, archaic, dialectal) To vomit; retch.

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