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• v  censure severely or angrily

• The Chinese and Russians berate each other for straying from the path of true Marxism-Leninism.
• Speaking at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Plant in Newport, Michigan Tuesday, the Arizonan reiterates his "all of the above" energy proposal, berate his rival for not advocating the same.
• Handsome Joe McWilliams, the soapbox fihrer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of .

• call on the carpet
• take to task
• rebuke
• rag
• trounce
• reproof
• lecture
• reprimand
• jaw
• dress down
• call down
• scold
• chide
• bawl out
• remonstrate
• chew out
• chew up
• have words
• lambaste
• lambast

News & Articles

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• E3 2013: Sony Shows Us How To Rub Salt In A Wound
  Microsoft will be adding some restrictive used games DRM into the Xbox One. On the other hand, Sony will not. In classic fanboy fashion, PlayStation fans are using this to berate Xbox fans. Now, Sony could have taken the high …
  June 11, 2013 - WebProNews
• Actress Helen Mirren turns ferocious in new 'Monsters' movie
  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - British actress Helen Mirren had no trouble transforming herself from monarch to menacing creature for the new "Monsters, Inc." animated movie, but said she's not so frightening in real life. The 67-year-old veteran of stage and screen made headlines last month when she stormed out of a London theatre dressed as Queen Elizabeth to berate a group of ...
  June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Alexander Downer in NEWS.com.au
  The way question time works is that 50 per cent of the questions are asked of ministers by government backbenchers, written in ministers' offices, and they just berate the Opposition,Mr Downer said on Fairfax Radio Network today. "And the...
• Tony Romo in Dallas Morning News
  Wade is not going to sit there and yell and berate at you and make you feel like a kid,quarterback Tony Romo said. "But what he will do is be a football coach and treat you like a man. And if you don't do the same, then he'll just get rid...
• James Haven in New Zealand Herald
  James says "I don't want to constantly berate my father. I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace but he put my mom through years of mental abuse, and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children. So that's my religion - helping...