berate
/bɪˈɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.44 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well?"
- "Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness."
- "A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be."
- "Lenerengo, as usual, forgot everything else in the fiercer pleasure of berating her spouse."
- "During the rally, he berates the crowd for their cowardice."
- "France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English rate English berate From be- + rate (“to scold, upbraid”).