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Scold vs. Chide — What's the Difference?

Scold vs. Chide — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Scold and Chide

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Scold

To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily.

Chide

To scold mildly so as to correct or improve; reprimand
Chided the boy for his sloppiness.

Scold

To express harsh or angry disapproval to someone.

Chide

To express disapproval.

Scold

One who persistently nags or criticizes
"As a critic gets older, he or she usually grows more tetchy and ... may even become a big-league scold" (James Wolcott).
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Chide

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

Scold

A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.

Chide

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

Scold

(ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.
I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.

Chide

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

Scold

(ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.

Chide

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Upbraided, chid, and rated at.

Scold

Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.

Chide

Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
The sea that chides the banks of England.

Scold

Misconstruction of scald

Chide

To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses.

Scold

To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; - often with at; as, to scold at a servant.
Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time everI was forced to scold.

Chide

To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
As doth a rock againts the chiding flood.

Scold

To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.

Chide

A continuous noise or murmur.
The chide of streams.

Scold

One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.
She is an irksome, brawling scold.

Chide

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

Scold

A scolding; a brawl.

Scold

Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

Scold

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

Scold

Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude;
He scolded about anything that he thought was wrong
We grumbled about the increased work load

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