Verb

(en-verb)

To denounce as harmful.

* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 99:

All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.

* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:

While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.

To blame for ills.

Verb

To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .

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 , .

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(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.

(ambitransitive) 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