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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To reprove sharply; reproach. See Synonyms at scold.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To reproach for some fault or offense; charge reproachfully; reproach: regularly followed by with or for (rarely of) before the thing imputed.
  2. To offer as an accusation or charge against some person or thing: with to before the person or thing blamed.
  3. Specifically, to reprove with severity; chide.
  4. To bring reproach on; be a reproach to.
  5. To make a subject of reproach or chiding.
  6. Synonyms Mock, Flout, etc. See taunt.
  7. To utter upbraidings or reproaches.
  8. n. The act of upbraiding; reproach; contumely; abuse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete The act of reproaching; contumely.
  2. v. transitive To criticize severely.
  3. v. archaic To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
  4. v. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
  5. v. obsolete To treat with contempt.
  6. v. obsolete To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
  7. v. archaic, intransitive To utter upbraidings.
  8. v. Northern England To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
  2. v. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
  3. v. obsolete To treat with contempt.
  4. v. obsolete To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.
  5. v. To utter upbraidings.
  6. n. obsolete The act of reproaching; contumely.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. express criticism towards

Etymologies

  1. Old English upbreiden, from upp ("up") + bregdan ("to draw, twist, weave; the kindred"); Icelandic bregða ("to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid"). See up, and braid (transitive). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English upbreiden, from Old English ūpbrēdan, to bring forward as a ground for censure : ūp-, up- + bregdan, to turn, lay hold of. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Noelle Knight "I didn't want to argue with Bill, or upbraid him for his unfaithfulness." -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris Feb 5, 2011

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