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Objurgate

verb
(past & past part. objurgated; pres. part. objurgating)
1.
Express strong disapproval of.  Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate.  "These ideas were reprobated"
2.
Censure severely.  Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct.






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... execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against. execrate &c. 908; exprobate[obs3], speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile|, revile; vilify, vilipend[obs3]; bespatter; backbite; ...
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