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verb

Chide v. t. (past & past part. chided; pres. part. chiding or chidden)

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. "Upbraided, chid, and rated at."

Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against. "The sea that chides the banks of England."

To chide hither, To chide from, or To chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.

Synonyms: To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach; reprehend; reprimand.

Chide v. i. (past & past part. chided; pres. part. chiding or chidden)

To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. "Wherefore the people did chide with Moses."

To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. "As doth a rock againts the chiding flood."

noun

Chide n. A continuous noise or murmur. "The chide of streams."

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— The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson • Ernest Dowson et al

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— The Children's Bible • Henry A. Sherman

... glances, and filled his own glass, for Lady Mount-Rhyswicke plainly had no conception of herself in the role of a Hebe. The hospitable Pedlow, observing this neglect, was moved to chide her. ...

— His Own People • Booth Tarkington

... himself that he would be happy indeed if he might dare to kiss that little foot—but one of Miss Lydia's hands was bare and held a daisy. He took the daisy from her, and Lydia's hand pressed his, and then he kissed the daisy, and then he kissed her hand, and yet she did not chide him . . . and all these thoughts prevented him from paying any attention to the road he was travelling, and meanwhile he trotted steadily onward. For the second time, in his fancy, he was about to kiss Miss Nevil's snow-white hand, when, as his horse stopped short, he very nearly ...

— Columba • Prosper Merimee

... The knife of Circassian and Bashi-Bazouk had severed the bond with Great Britain which had saved Turkey in 1854. Disraeli—henceforward Earl of Beaconsfield—could only utter grim anathemas against Servia for presuming to draw the sword upon its rightful lord and master, and chide those impatient English who, like the greater man whose name is associated with Beaconsfield, considered that the world need not be too critical as to the means of getting rid of such an ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

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