transitive verb

• Rebuke severely; scold.

  ‘the old man objurgated his son’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.’
  • ‘In ‘The high cost of low prices’, you objurgate the chain store for its business practices.’
  • ‘But I highly objurgate (word of the day calendars are wonderful things) his stealing my boyfriend's song.’
  • ‘‘I objurgate the centipede,/ A bug we do not really need,’ writes Ogden Nash.’
  • ‘And I will objurgate and distance myself from any of my fellow countrymen and women who do so’

  Synonyms

  criticize, censure, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambast, pillory, savage, find fault with, fulminate against, abuse