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berate
be·rate
 , v.t.,
-rat·ed, -rat·ing.
to scold; rebuke: He
berated them in public.
[1540–50;
BE- +
RATE2]
—Syn.abuse,
vilify, vituperate, objurgate.
(Random
House Webster's Unabridged).
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In rang a third man, to berate the second for his weakness. Didn't he realise that he was in more danger staying at home? Why, 10 people were killed on the roads every day. That didn't stop us driving, did it? No, it was our duty, as British citizens, to show the terrorists we would not be cowed by keeping going as we always did. We didn't let the IRA panic us. Why start worrying now?
—— David Thomas;
British Phlegm is an Excuse for Sheer Apathy;
Telegraph; Feb 16, 2003
She tells of Mr.
Hauptmann's great joy when they had a baby son, and of the times she
ran up the stairs to berate him for playing the mandolin after
the baby was asleep and found him playing the
Brahms Lullaby as the baby looked on
approvingly. —— Mrs. Hauptmann's Cause: The Fight to Reopen 'The
Trial of the Century'; New York Times; Oct 20,
1981
In a combative performance, David Davis, the shadow deputy prime minister,
berated the government for presiding over the lowest level of affordable, or social housebuilding since records began - a third down on 1997. He ridiculed the plan, half-jokingly, for proposing
'bulldozing the north and concreting over the south'.—— Peter
Hetherington;
Billions promised for House-Building Bonanza;
Prescott accused of throwing cash at the south and
'bulldozing' the north;Feb 06 2003
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