admonish, call down, chasten, chide, have words with, lesson, rack, rebuke, reprimand, set down, spank, take down, upbraid
Definitionv. take to task
Last update: October 16, 2015
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He was reproved for not doing his work properly. . [verb]
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Be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. [verb]
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Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. [verb]
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And I never can get you to reprove her. [verb]
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His lordship was the only person who ever reproved her seriously, yet she loved him best of all her kindred or friends. [verb]
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And Christ at once reproved him for this, saying, that he who takes up the sword shall perish by the sword. [verb]
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Denisov was angry with the Cossack because the saddle girths were too slack, reproved him, and mounted. [verb]
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The sweet creature turned all colours in her confusion, feigning to reprove a slight disorder in her dress: a slip of underwood clung there for the very trees adore her. [verb]
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He was a man reproved, he was the convict. [verb]
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'So asked in His agony the Son of high God,' he reproved her. [verb]
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What could this man, who was reproved, say to that woman, who was dead. [verb]
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