Vituperate

Definition: Vituperate

Vituperate

Verb

1. Spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews".

Date "vituperate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Etymology: Vituperate \Vi*tu"per*ate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression vituperatus, past participle of vituperare to blame, vituperate; vitium fault parare to prepare. See Vice fault, and Pare, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Vituperate

Synonyms: rail (v), revile (v), vilify (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vituperate

Specialty definitions using "vituperate": Black is White. (references)

Etymologies containing "vituperate": Vituperation. (references)

Language		Translations for "vituperate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shfryj (blast, blow, bluster, decompress, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, leak, let off steam, natter, puff, whiffle, wreak), shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, rap, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid), poshtëroj (abase, demean, humble, humiliate, let down, lower, mortify, wipe the floor with), mallkoj (anathematize, ban, call down, curse, damn, darn, dash, execrate, imprecate, swear), fyej (affront, aggrieve, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex). (various references)

Arabic		‏قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vomit), ‏قدح (dispraise, glass, goblet, invective, libel, percuss, slander, slur, snap, tumbler, vituperation), ‏وبخ بقسوة (bawl, spank), ‏ذم (asperse, blacken, blackguard, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, invective, slur, vilify, vituperation). (various references)

Bulgarian		ругая (abuse, be down on, call names, curse, cuss, damn, drub, get on to smb., inveigh, keelhaul, land on, rail, rate, revile, row, slang, slate, storm at, swear, swear at, walk into, whip), хуля (declaim, denigrate, inveigh, miscall, vilify), хокам (rag, rake, rate, revile, scold, tick off), обиждам (abuse, affront, aggrieve, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, offend, outrage, slight, spite, wrong), злословя (detract, slander, traduce). (various references)

Czech		tupit (revile, vilify), kárat (animadvert, castigate, censure, chasten, reprehend, reproach, twit), hanìt (criticize, reprehend). (various references)

French		vitupérer. (various references)

German		schmähen (abuse, blaspheme, calumniate, contumely, inveigh against, revile, vilify). (various references)

Greek		ονειδίζω (revise, twit). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�'�"ף (abuse, blackguard, curse, defame, insult, revile, slang, taunt, vilify). (various references)

Hungarian		lehord valakit (upbraid), összeszid (scold, to carpet, to scold, to tick off, to vituperate). (various references)

Italian		vituperare (revile). (various references)

Manx		oltooaney (abuse, disgrace, expostulate, rail against, raillery, reproach, revile, reviler). (various references)

Pig Latin		ituperatevay

Portuguese		repreender (admonish, berate, bounce, carpet, censure, correct, find loopholes, jaw vice, lecturer, lessor, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, take to task, tell off, twit, upbraid), insultar (abuse, affront, blackguard, clapperclaw, fly into a passion, insult, outrage, revile), injuriar (abuse, attack, insult, inveigh, knock about, knock around, miscall, offend, outrage, revile, slander, stab), exprobrar (objurgate, rebuke, reproach, twit), dirigir vitupérios a, censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censoring, censure, chide, condemn, damn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, glossal, impeach, inculpation, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, Nicaragua, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid). (various references)

Romanian		ocãrî (abuse, blame, call down, censure, curse, insult, rail, reproach, revile, upbraid), insulta (bark at, cast a slur upon, do wrong to, offend, put a slur upon, revile), condamna (adjudge, ban, blame, censure, condemn, convict, crime, decry, deprecate, fine, judge, reprobate, reprove, sentence). (various references)

Russian		бранить (chide, clapperclaw, objurgate, pepper, rail against, rate, reprove, scold, take to task), поносить (blaspheme, bullyrag, defame, revile, stigmatize, vilify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izgrditi (berate, chastise, dress down, give it to him, lambaste, rip, scathe, scold, snub, tell off). (various references)

Spanish		vituperar (decry, scathe, traduce). (various references)

Swedish		smäda (abuse, asperse, blaspheme, calumniate, libel, revile), skymfa (abuse, affront, insult, libel, offend, outrage). (various references)

Turkish		sövmek (call names, curse, rail, revile, slam, swear), küfretmek (abuse, blackguard, blaspheme, blaspheme against, blow, call names, curse, rail, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slang, swear), hakaret etmek (affront, defame, desecrate, give affront to, insult, outrage, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slight), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid). (various references)

Ukranian		ганьбити (abuse, animadvert, asperse, attaint, besmirch, blaspheme, defame, disgrace, inveigh, reproach, scandalize, shame, soil, spot, stain, tarnish, tongue, vilify, wrong), злоститися. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vituperate": vituperated, vituperates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vituperate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: viputerate, vituberate, vituperat. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "vituperate" (pronounced 'Vi*tu"per*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-p-r-t-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: eruptive, putative.
	-3 letters: ariette, iterate, partite, peatier, pettier, private, puttier.
	-4 letters: attire, pareve, pattee, patter, pattie, pereia, petite, petter, pirate, prevue, privet, puttee, putter, ratite, repave, repeat, repute, retape, tauter, trevet, trivet, uprate, uptear, verite, virtue, vittae.
	-5 letters: aerie, aiver, apter, arete, atrip, aurei, avert, eater, erupt, etape, evert, evite, irate, pareu, parve, pater.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-p-r-t-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: vituperated, vituperates.
	+2 letters: putrefactive, vituperative.
	+4 letters: vituperatively.
	+5 letters: superactivities.
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