Objurgate

Definitions: Objurgate

Objurgate

Verb

1. Express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa".

2. Censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks".

Date "objurgate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references)

Note: Objurgate \Ob*jur"gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Objurgated; present participle verb or noun Objurgating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Objurgate

Synonyms: castigate (v), chasten (v), chastise (v), condemn (v), correct (v), decry (v), excoriate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Execrate; exprobate, 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; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Objurgate

English words defined with "objurgate": Objurgated, Objurgating, Objurgatory. (references)

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Language		Translations for "objurgate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, offend, rag, rap, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), qortoj ashpër (dress down), bërtas (bawl, call, Caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, holler, scream, shout, shout at, shriek, squall, vociferate, whoop, yell). (various references)

Bulgarian		упреквам (animadvert, condemn, find fault, reproach, taunt, twit, upbraid), коря (check, chide, reprehend, reproach, reprove), карам се на (rag), мъмря (call down, caution, correct, lecture, lesson, rap, rebuke, reprimand, school, scold). (various references)

Czech		plísnit (chide, snub, upbraid). (various references)

German		tadeln (castigate, censure, chide, criticize, dispraise, fault, lecture, rebuke, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproaches, reproval, reprove, to blame, vituperate). (various references)

Greek		επιπλήττω (admonish, berate, castigate, check, lecture, objervate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprove, scold, take to task), επιτιμώ (animadvert, berate, keelhaul, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, upbraid). (various references)

Hungarian		korhol (chid, chidden, chide, reprehend, to chide, to nag at sy, to rack, to rebuke, to upbraid). (various references)

Indonesian		mencerca (censure, deride, objurgatory, revile). (various references)

Italian		censurare (animadvert, blame, censor, censure). (various references)

Manx		troiddey (altercate, altercation, berate, bicker, chide, chiding, dress down, dressing down, jaw, jaw scolding, mud-slinging, nag, nagging, objurgation, quarrel, quarrelling, rate, row; squabbling, scold, scolding, set to, squabble, telling off, wigging). (various references)

Pig Latin		objurgateay

Portuguese		objurgar, pessoa levanta objeções, invectivar, increpar (reproach), exprobrar (rebuke, reproach, twit, vituperate), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censure, chide, condemn, damn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, glossal, impeach, inculpation, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, Nicaragua, quarrel, rebuke, red pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Romanian		mustra aspru (jump on, jump upon), dojeni aspru. (various references)

Russian		бранить (chide, clapperclaw, pepper, rail against, rate, reprove, scold, take to task, vituperate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ukoriti (lecture, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold), kuditi. (various references)

Spanish		reprender (blame, censure, chide, dress down, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task). (various references)

Swedish		tillrättavisa (admonish, check, correct, lecture, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, talk to). (various references)

Thai		ประณาม (execrate, goddam). (various references)

Turkish		paylamak (baste, bring up, dress down, flay, give smb. beans, inveigh, jaw out, lace into, rag, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, scold, tick off), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Ukranian		корити, картати (cant, castigate, chide, pitch on, scold), дорікати (betongue, rebuke, reproach, reprove, tax, twit), докоряти (admonish, chide, pull up, upbraid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "objurgate": objurgated, objurgates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Objurgate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: objugate, objurgare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "objurgate" (pronounced 'Ob*jur"gate'): Fungate, Ligate, Outgate, Plagate, Prolongate, Rugate, Strigate, Subelongate, tollgate, Waygate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-j-o-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: outbrag, outrage.
	-3 letters: abjure, aerugo, arbute, baguet, boater, borage, borate, brogue, garote, jerboa, jugate, orgeat, outage, outbeg, ragout, rebato, rubato, rugate, tabour.
	-4 letters: abort, about, argot, argue, auger, barge, beaut, begat, begot, boart, bourg, brute, buret, buteo, ergot, erugo, gator, grate, great, groat, grout, jabot, jager, jurat, oater, objet, orate, outer, outre, rebut.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-j-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: objurgated, objurgates.
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