Berate vs. Chide

Berateverb

(transitive) to chide or scold vehemently

Chideverb

(transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

Berateverb

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

Chideverb

To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

Berateverb

censure severely or angrily;

‘The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car’; ‘The deputy ragged the Prime Minister’; ‘The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup’;

Chideverb

(ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

Chideverb

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

‘Upbraided, chid, and rated at.’;

Chideverb

Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.

‘The sea that chides the banks of England.’;

Chideverb

To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

‘Wherefore the people did chide with Moses.’;

Chideverb

To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

‘As doth a rock againts the chiding flood.’;

Chidenoun

A continuous noise or murmur.

‘The chide of streams.’;

Chideverb

censure severely or angrily;

‘The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car’; ‘The deputy ragged the Prime Minister’; ‘The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup’;