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词汇 rebuke
释义 rebuke
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /rɪˈbjuːk/ us /rɪˈbjuːk/
to speak angrily to someone because you disapprove of what they have said or done: 斥责;指责;训斥
I was rebuked by my manager for being late.我因为迟到而遭到经理的训斥。
The Justice Department publicly rebuked him over a leaked memorandum.
Synonyms
berateformal
chideformal
lambaste
lecture
reprimandformal
scoldold-fashioned
She was rebuked sharply by her mother.
He rebuked my brother for having agitated me unnecessarily.
When I mildly rebuked your cousin for falling asleep, she acted like she had done the most horrible thing.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chastising & rebuking
admonishing
admonishingly
admonitory
barracking
bawl
carpet
earbashing
keelhaul
lambaste
lecture
pull someone up
punchbag
punching bag
put someone in their placeidiom
rap someone over the knucklesidiom
shame
spoken
tear
ticking-off
wigging
rebuke
noun[ C or U ]
 formaluk /rɪˈbjuːk/ us /rɪˈbjuːk/
the act of speaking angrily to someone because you disapprove of what they have said or done, or the things that someone says to show disapproval like this :
He received a stern rebuke from the manager.
Her statement drew a sharp rebuke from the Senator.
Rebuke is the appropriate punishment in this case.
Synonyms
lecture
reprimandformal
He suffered a stinging rebuke when shareholders withheld 45% of their votes for his re-election.
She issued a strong rebuke after last week's vote.
He remains angry that there was no warning or rebuke to the solicitor.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chastising & rebuking
admonishing
admonishingly
admonitory
barracking
bawl
carpet
earbashing
keelhaul
lambaste
lecture
pull someone up
punchbag
punching bag
put someone in their placeidiom
rap someone over the knucklesidiom
shame
spoken
tear
ticking-off
wigging

rebuke | American Dictionary


rebuke
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/rɪˈbjuk /
to criticize someone strongly because you disapprove of what the person has said or done:
He was publicly rebuked for his involvement in the scandal.

rebuke


noun[ C/U ]us/rɪˈbjuk /
fml
[ C ]a sharp rebuke

Examples of rebuke


rebuke
He ran inside to get his brother, whom the saint rebuked.
Failure by a low-ranking chimpanzee (or wolf or human) to exhibit submissive behavior in the presence of more dominant animals will earn rebuke.
I will always rebuke anybody who dares to challenge me on the issue of having a white director.
She will understand that now, if not before, they have the standing to rebuke her for failing to support the satisfaction of those preferences. iii.
He would then be making this rebuke on the basis of his membership in the complex collective as opposed to one of the opposing teams.
Indeed, such remarks may themselves be made as rebukes.
They rebuked their parents as feudalistic, their teachers as too strict controllers.
As might be expected, the implementation of such a discriminatory policy also drew rebukes from the outside world.
The rebuke may have been more social than artistic criticism.
That remark, by a long forgotten critic, was meant as a rebuke for the painter who did not work from sketches.
But whether he was embraced or critiqued, welcomed or rebuked, he was a necessary part of the public face suffragists put on.
This in turn is often poly-vocalised via double or multi-tracking, jumping from soothing intimacy (frequently confessional) to a hardened timbre (rebuke) to great shock effect.
With death having silenced his rebuking voice, there was little to remind people what a burr in their sides he had been.
Her life story recounts constantly being rebuked and treated poorly by others.
She even silently rebukes and repairs the false taste of uneducated man.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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