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What does chide mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chide? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
  3. (transitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
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Though I was a few minutes late for dinner, Miss Herbert did not chide me for delay.
Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep.
I want to gently chide my colleague in the House today for specifically referring to that as genocide.
He also shares a somewhat condescending, didactic bent, and a tendency to chide and admonish rather than charm and encourage.
Then at last they slowly returned, unrebuked, for no man had the heart to chide their daring.
The theater manager does not chide, warn or cajole us into good behavior.

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