Usually means: Criticize or correct someone gently.
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  1. reprove: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reprove: Merriam-Webster
  3. reprove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reprove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reprove: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reprove: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reprove, reprove: Wordnik
  8. reprove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reprove: Wiktionary
  10. reprove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reprove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Reprove, reprove: Dictionary.com
  13. reprove: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Reprove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. reprove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. reprove: Rhymezone
  17. reprove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. reprove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. reprove: FreeDictionary.org
  20. reprove: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. reprove: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reprove: Legal dictionary

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  1. reprove: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REPROVE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To express disapproval.
verb:  (transitive) To criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
verb:  (transitive) To deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To prove again.

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