English > chew up: 1 sense > verb 1, communication| Meaning | censure severely or angrily. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | Sam cannot chew up Sue |
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| Synonyms | call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, have words, lambaste, lambast |
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| Narrower | chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct | censure severely |
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| tell off, brush down | reprimand |
| Broader | knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart | find fault with |
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| Catalan | renyar, reprendre |
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| Spanish | regañar |
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