Tell Off

Definition: Tell Off

Tell Off

Verb

1. Reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Tell Off

Numeration

Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.

Expression using "tell off": to tell off. Additional references.

Albanian

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, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), qortoj (admonish, berate, 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, trim, twit, upbraid), caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, zone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وبخ (berate, 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, tick off, tickle, upbraid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отмервам (admeasure, measure, time, vibrate), отброявам (count off), наругавам (lace, lambaste, pepper, pitch into, skin, slang, slate, talk to). (various references)

Czech

vypravovat (narrate, relate, tell), vyhubovat (reprove, row, tick off, upbraid), vybrat (choose, clear, cull, look for, scoop, select, shell out, single out, withdraw), odpoèítat (count off, discount). (various references)

French

gronder, disputer, éreinter. (various references)

German

schimpfen (abuse, badmouth, bitch, curse, get angry, go on, grouch, grumble, insult, inveigh, moan, offend, rant, reprimand, scold, swear, upbraid), schelten (abuse, blame, chide, curse, insult, offend, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, to scold), rüffeln (snub, tick off), heruntermachen (belittle, do down, knock, lash), ausschimpfen (bawl out, call down, scold, tick off, ticking off, to scold). (various references)

Greek 

κατσαδιάζω (carpet, come down on, rebuke, scold, strafe, take to task, tick off). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'עור (curse, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reproof, reprove, scold). (various references)

Hungarian

leszid (rebuke, to give sy gyp, to rate, to run down, to scold, to score, to tell off, to trim, to trounce, to wig), leszámol (to tell off), kijelöl (allot, appoint, assign, designate, doom, lay out, mark off, mark out, situate, to appoint, to assign, to designate, to fix on, to lay out, to mark out, to reassign, to set out, to trace out). (various references)

Indonesian

mengata-ngatai, mendamprat (scold, verbally abuse). (various references)

Italian

riprendere (begin again, blame, catch again, get back, rebuke, recover, recrudesce, regain, renew, reopen, reprehend, reproach, reprove, resume, scold, shoot, start again). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詰る (to rebuke, to scold, to tell off), 叱り飛ばす (to rebuke strongly, to tell off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なじる (to rebuke, to scold, to tell off), しかりとばす (to rebuke strongly, to tell off). (various references)

Pig Latin

elltay offay

Portuguese

repreender (admonish, berate, bounce, carpet, censure, correct, find fault with, jaw, lecture, lesson, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, take to task, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Russian 

отсчитывать, отрядить (detach), отбирать (adeem, adeemed, choose, cull, handpick, pick, select, single out, sort out, staple, weed away, weed out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odabrati (cull, pick, pick out, select), izgrditi (berate, chastise, dress down, give it to him, lambaste, rip, scathe, scold, snub, vituperate). (various references)

Spanish

tirar (burn, cast, discard, dispose of, drag, draw, draw out, fire, haul, heave, kiss off, knock off, lay, pitch, print, pull, shoot, throw, throw about, throw aside, throw away, throw out, to throw, toss away, toss over, tug, turn out), lanzar (aim, bring out, cast, dart, dash, deliver, drop, ejaculate, fling, give, heave, hurl, hurtle, introduce, lance, launch, lower, pitch, put, release, send, send up, set up, shoot, sling, throw, throw down, throw in, throw out, toss), arreglar (accommodate, arrange, assort, do, doctor, dress, fix, fix up, frame, lay out, line up, mend, order, patch up, posh up, put in order, quadrate, regularize, regulate, rig up, set right, settle, sew up, smarten, smarten up, smooth, smooth out, sort, sort out, Square, stage, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up), arrojar (belch, bring up, cast, cast out, catapult, chuck, disgorge, dump, emit, fling, give, give off, give out, hawk, hawk up, heave, hurl, jerk, reject, release, result, shoot, skid, sling, slingshots, spew, throw, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss), dar de (back on to, bestow, fleer, tender, touch), desconcertar en algo (discomfit, rattle, shake, stump), desmontar (alight, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, level, strip, take apart, take in, take to pieces, throw, unrig), dirigir por (live up, volley, zero in), aclarar (amplify, brighten, clarify, clear, clear up, elucidate, exemplify, explain, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, lighten, rinse, throw), formar por números, mandar (be in charge, bid, command, delegate, dictate, direct, draft, draught, enjoin, get off, guide, instruct, lead, manage, officer, ordain, order, post, prescribe, put, send, send along, send in, send off, send on, send out, send round, sending, steer, tell), ordenar (accommodate, adjure, arrange, assort, classify, command, confer, demand, enjoin, fill an order, line up, make, map out, Marshal, ordain, order, put in order, rank, set in order, set out, sort, table, tidy out, tidy up, will), organizar (arrange, array, be organized, catalog, catalogue, categorize, do organized, drum up, get organized, get up, give, host, light, line up, live up, make organized, organise, organize, put together, stage), pedir (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, book, call for, charge, crave, demand, indent for, inquire, invite, live off, live on, order, postulate for, put upon, request, require, reserve, seek, sue for, summon, supplicate, to ask for, to order, treat), proyectar (contemplate, design, make a project of, map out, plan, project, scheme, screen, show, throw), reñir (argue, fall out, fight, quarrel, scold, spat, wrangle), echar (add, affix, blow, blow out, bud, cast, cast up, chuck, chuck out, detrude, draw, drop, eject, fall back, fasten, kick out, lay, order off, order out, oust, post, pour, pump, push out, put, put down as, put forth, put on, put out, send, send away, send forth, send out, shoot, shoot forth, shoot out, sick, tack on, throw, throw away, throw in, throw on, throw out, throw up, tick off, tip, toss, toss away, toss over, turf out, turn out). (various references)

Swedish

ta ut (draw, draw on, draw out, pick out, take out), avdela (divide, partition off). (various references)

Turkish

sayıp ayırmak, iş vermek (employ, task), görev vermek, 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 smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Ukrainian

розподілятися, відраховувати (deduct, throw off), вилаяти (tick off), призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: fell, felt, floe, left, loft, teff, tell, toff, tole, toll.

-4 letters: eff, eft, elf, ell, fet, foe, let, lot, off, oft, ole, tel, toe.

-5 letters: ef, el, et, lo, oe, of, to.

+4 letters: effortfully, forgetfully.

+5 letters: effortlessly.