Punish vs Upbraid - What's the difference?
punish | upbraid |
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow )
To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.
To criticize severely.
* Matthew 11:20 ,
* (rfdate),
(archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with'' or ''for'', and formerly ''of , before the thing imputed.
* Mark 16:14 ,
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To treat with contempt.
(obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
(archaic) To utter upbraidings.
To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.
As verbs the difference between punish and upbraid
is that punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action while upbraid is to criticize severely.As a noun upbraid is
(obsolete) the act of reproaching; contumely.punish
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* (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct ) castigateDerived terms
* punishable * punisher (noun ) * punishment (noun ) * (l) and (l) (through portmanteau with (etyl) )External links
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* 1000 English basic wordsupbraid
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(en verb)- Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
- How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
- And upbraided them with their unbelief.
- Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
- (Spenser)
- (Francis Bacon)
