Usually means: Reprimand someone angrily or harshly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scold: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scold: Merriam-Webster
  3. scold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scold: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scold: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scold, scold: Wordnik
  8. scold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scold: Wiktionary
  10. scold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scold: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scold: Dictionary.com
  14. scold (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scold: Rhymezone
  20. scold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scold: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scold: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. scold: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. scold: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scold: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scold: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scold: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
verb:  (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
verb:  Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
verb:  Misconstruction of scald [To burn with hot liquid.]

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