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Webster 1913 Edition


Chide

Chide

(chīd)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Chid
(chĭd)
, or
Chode
(chīd Obs.)
;
p.
p.
Chidden
,
Chid
;
p.
pr.
&
vb.
Noun.
Chiding
.]
[AS.
cīdan
; of unknown origin.]
1.
To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Upbraided,
chid
, and rated at.
Shakespeare
2.
Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
The sea that
chides
the banks of England.
Shakespeare
Syn. – To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach; reprehend; reprimand.

Chide

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
Wherefore the people did
chide
with Moses.
Ex. xvii. 2.
2.
To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
As doth a rock againts the
chiding
flood.
Shakespeare

Chide

,
Noun.
[AS.
cīd
]
A continuous noise or murmur.
The
chide
of streams.
Thomson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Chide

CHIDE

, v.t.
1.
To scold at; to reprove; to utter words in anger, or by way of disapprobation; to rebuke; as, to chide one for his faults.
2.
To blame; to reproach; as, to chide folly or negligence.
To chide from or chide away, is to drive away by scolding or reproof.

CHIDE

, v.i.
1.
To scold; to clamor; to find fault; to contend in words of anger; sometimes followed by with.
The people did chide with Moses. Ex. 17.
2.
To quarrel.
3.
To make a rough, clamorous, roaring noise; as the chiding flood.

CHIDE

,
Noun.
Murmur; gentle noise.

Definition 2024


chide

chide

English

Verb

chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid or chided or chode, past participle chid or chided or chidden)

  1. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
    • 1591 And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. — Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, Scene 1.
      1598 If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you chid me, I did love — Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2.
      1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
    • 1611 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
    • Shakespeare
      As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
    • Shakespeare
      the sea that chides the banks of England

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