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Chided vs Reprimanded - What's the difference?

chided | reprimanded |

As verbs the difference between chided and reprimanded

is that chided is (chide) or chided can be while reprimanded is (reprimand).

chided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chide)

    • Synonyms

    * chid * chode

    Verb

    (head)

    • Synonyms

    * chid * chidden

    reprimanded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reprimand)

    • reprimand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  • * Macaulay
    • Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reprove in a formal or official way.
  • * 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
    • He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * admonish * admonition * rebuke * reprehend * reprehension * reproof * reproval * reprove