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Lambaste vs Revile - What's the difference?

lambaste | revile |

As verbs the difference between lambaste and revile

is that lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly while revile is to attack (someone) with abusive language.

As a noun revile is

(obsolete) reproach; reviling.

lambaste

English

Alternative forms

* lambast (UK)

Verb

(lambast)
  • To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
    • The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
    Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
  • * 2013 , Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in ''The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
    • Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
  • (dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

    • Synonyms

    * (to give a thrashing to) beat, hit, thrash * (to scold or verbally reprimand) berate, scold, tell off

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    revile

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To attack (someone) with abusive language.
  • * Bible, 1 Peter ii. 23
    • who, when he was reviled , reviled not again
  • * Shakespeare
    • And did not she herself revile me there?

    Synonyms

    * reproach * scold * vilify * vituperate

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) reproach; reviling
    • The gracious Judge, without revile , replied. — Milton.

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