- - Scold severely
- - Scold harshly
- - Scold
- - Complain against — a trial (anag)
- - Rebuke harshly
- - Reproach harshly
- - Angrily denounce
- - Attack an adversary, verbally
- - Rebuke bitterly
- - Inveigh against
- - Angrily harangue
- - Tear a new one
- - Target with invective
- - Give the business
- - Read the riot act to
- - Berate
- - Lay into
- - Take to task
- - Upbraid
- - Revile
- - Excoriate
- - Lambaste.
- - Criticize harshly
- - Denounce
- - Vituperate
- - Bawl (out)
- - Chew (out)
- - Harangue
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