Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To rebuke or scold angrily and at length. See Synonyms at scold.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To chide vehemently; scold.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
WordNet 3.0
- v. censure severely or angrily
Etymologies
- be- + rate2.
Examples
“And I couldn't wait to say that it could be misconstrued as a hatred for someone who they want to berate, which is tantamount to character assassination, because of race, culture and the color of their skin.”
“After Allen went to the bathroom, Mayo continued to "berate" his teammate and”
“Jeff Probst and Julie Berry broke up; Richard Hatch smuggled matches in his ass Megan Parris says Bachelor producers "berate," "curse at" contestants Vincent Pastore needed a cane to walk after Dancing with the Stars training Chris Sligh leaves as Ryan Seacrest turns Idol into the Sanjaya show Bravo plans multiple new editions of its Real Housewives "franchise" hear or see me in the media”
“A bike doesn't constantly berate you over every single thing you do.”
“Waxman can berate them for it all he wants, they can go up there and say with a straight face that their lawyers absolutely said they must do so and that Waxman is free to provide them with a contrary legal opinion if he likes.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
“Now Waxman is going to browbeat and berate them for it on national TV, as if they had done something wrong, because these earlier “nudges” conflict with the PR of the Health Care Deform.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
“- Authors who pitch their book as a Guaranteed Insta-Bestseller, or berate the slush-reader for “missing out on a golden opportunity” if they dare to send a rejection letter”
“He was an early cellphone user, and she would call on his big, clunky model to berate him.”
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“I began to berate myself in my mind: He is transgendered!”
“Government officials regularly berate us for our lack of professionalism, objectivity, accuracy.”
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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iconoclast, glacial, agnostic, histrionic, treacly, contemptuous, captious, bombastic, bombast, perfidy, quiescence, sordid and 148 more...
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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, amphigory, semprini, twaddle, plethora and 28 more...
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Censure (v.)
Someone must have had an inferiority complex.
vituperate, vilify, trounce, traduce, slander, scold, revile, reprove, reprimand, reprehend, remonstrate, rebuke and 37 more...

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