Berate

Definition: Berate

Berate

Verb

1. Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic.

Date "berate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Berate \Be*rate"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Berated; present participle verb or noun Berating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Berate

Synonyms: bawl out (v), chew out (v), chew up (v), chide (v), dress down (v), have words (v), jaw (v), lambast (v), lambaste (v), lecture (v), rag (v), rebuke (v), remonstrate (v), reprimand (v), reproof (v), scold (v), trounce (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Berate

English words defined with "berate": Berated. (references)

"Berate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Berate" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.78%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (base form)	22.22%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Language		Translations for "berate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shaj (abuse, ballyrag, 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, vituperate), qortoj (admonish, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid). (various references)

Arabic		‏وبخ (blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, show up, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), ‏عنف بقسوة. (various references)

Bulgarian		смъмрям (admonish). (various references)

Czech		spílat (call names, rail, revile), nadávat (abuse, call names, curse, grumble, revile, scold, storm, swear), hubovat (natter, rail, rate, upbraid). (various references)

Farsi		سرزنش کردن (Blame, Calldown, Censure, Check, Chide, Haze, Rant, Reprehend, Reprimand, Reprove, Scold, Snub, Taunt, Trounce, Twit, Upbraid, Wig). (various references)

French		admonester. (various references)

German		auszanken, ausschelten (scold). (various references)

Greek		μαλώνω (argue about / over, bawl, chide, chide smb., jaw, lambaste, scold, scuffle, take to task, wig, yawp), επιπλήττω (admonish, castigate, check, lecture, objervate, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprove, scold, take to task), επιτιμώ (animadvert, keelhaul, objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, upbraid). (various references)

Hungarian		szid (chid, chidden, scold, to chide, to cuss, to lash, to miscall, to ream sy's ass out, to scold, to swear at, to zonk it to sy). (various references)

Indonesian		mencaci-maki, mencaci (curse out, jeer at, scorn, swear at), memaki-maki, memaki (abuse). (various references)

Italian		rimproverare (accuse, blame, chide, grudge, lecture, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, trim, twit, upbraid). (various references)

Manx		troiddey (altercate, altercation, bicker, chide, chiding, dress down, dressing down, jaw, jaw scolding, mud-slinging, nag, nagging, objurgate, objurgation, quarrel, quarrelling, rate, row; squabbling, scold, scolding, set to, squabble, telling off, wigging). (various references)

Pig Latin		eratebay

Portuguese		vedar (calk, caulk, hedge, parcel out, prohibit, rail, seal, stanch), repreender (admonish, 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, vituperate), fechar (bar, box, chain, close, coffin, drubbing, fasten, immurement, impound, lock, muriate, occlude, pen and ink, pin down, rail, seal, shut, shut in, snap, stop up, stopple, to close, to close manually, turn off), cercar com parapeito (rail), censurar (admonish, animadvert, 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, vituperate). (various references)

Romanian		mustra (chide, lash into, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, row, scold, slate, snub, twit), certa (abuse, altercate, blame, brawl, censure, chide, rag, rebuke, reprehend, reprove, row, scold, squabble, taunt). (various references)

Russian		ругать (abuse, drub, rail, scold, swear, whip). (various references)

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

Spanish		regañarse (nag, quarrel). (various references)

Swedish		skälla ut (abuse, call down, call names, dress down, dust down, insult, lambaste, lash out against, offend, rate, scold, slang, take apart), läxa upp (upbraid). (various references)

Thai		ตำหนิหรือ�"่าว่า. (various references)

Turkish		haşlamak (baste, bawl out, blanch, boil, call smb. over the coals, carpet, give smb. a talking-to, scald, scold, seethe, upbraid), fırça atmak (give smb. a roasting, give smb. a telling-off, give the stick, keelhaul, lam into, lambaste, rate, roast, sail into, slam, trounce), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, 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, vituperate). (various references)

Ukranian		сварити (betongue, inveigh, rag, round on), карати (chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, penalize, punish, strafe), лаяти (abuse, betongue, chapter, chide, pitch on). (various references)

Welsh		tafodi (scold). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	reputare.. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	reter. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "berate": berated, berates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "berate": deliberate, exuberate, liberate, nondeliberate, reverberate. (additional references)
	Words containing "berate": deliberated, deliberately, deliberateness, deliberatenesses, deliberates, exuberated, exuberates, liberated, liberates, reverberated, reverberates, unliberated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Berate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aberate, Baraje, Bawaeth, Beatae, beate, beaute, Becatti, beerage, befate, begate, Behroze, Bejaze, Benati, berabe, berade, berat, bereat, bereta, bergader, Bernabe, Bernat, Bernauer, Beroe, berrate, berte, berti, bertie, berto, Berutti, Betrasey, Bibata, birat, birate, Birte, Birute, blerte, Boratto, brata, brate, brati, breat, breate, briate, Bupati, Buratai, Burgate, Buryatia, byrate, byrite, eerate, erate, Eratex, merpati, verate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "berate" (pronounced birā"t)
3	-r ā" t	crate, desecrate, freight, grate, great, irate, overrate, prorate, rate, straight, Strait, trait, underrate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: beater, rebate.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-r-t"
	-1 letter: arete, beret, eater, taber.
	-2 letters: abet, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, rate, rete, tare, tear, tree.
	-3 letters: arb, are, art, ate, bar, bat, bee, bet, bra, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, rat, reb, ree, ret, tab, tae, tar, tea, tee.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, at, ba, be, er, et.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-r-t"
	+1 letter: abetter, beaters, berated, berates, beretta, bleater, breathe, debater, rebated, rebater, rebates, retable, tabered.
	+2 letters: abetters, absenter, absterge, acerbate, acerbest, arbelest, atremble, banneret, bantered, banterer, barbette, barrette, bartered, barterer, battener, battered, batterie, becarpet, berettas, berretta, betatter, betrayed, betrayer, bleaters, bracelet, breasted, breathed, breather, breathes, bregmate, cabernet, debaters, liberate, overbeat, rabbeted, rateable, rebaited, rebaters, rentable, retables, teaberry, tearable, tenebrae, terabyte, trabeate, vertebra, waterbed.
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