CASTIGATE meaning: Severely criticize or punish someone

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word castigate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

castigate: Merriam-Webster.com
castigate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
castigate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
castigate: Collins English Dictionary
castigate: Vocabulary.com
Castigate, castigate: Wordnik
castigate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
castigate: Wiktionary
castigate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
castigate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
castigate: Infoplease Dictionary
Castigate, castigate: Dictionary.com
castigate: Online Etymology Dictionary
castigate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Castigate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Castigate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
castigate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
castigate: Rhymezone
Castigate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
castigate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
castigate: Free Dictionary
castigate: Mnemonic Dictionary
castigate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
castigate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

castigate: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

castigate: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

castigate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.
▸ verb:  (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.

Opposite:

exonerate, vindicate

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