Upbraid vs Unbraid - What's the difference?
upbraid | unbraid |
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 upbraid and unbraid
is that upbraid is to criticize severely while unbraid is to disentangle the strands of a braid.As a noun upbraid
is the act of reproaching; contumely.upbraid
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Verb
(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)