Noun: chiding chI-ding
- Rebuking a person harshly
"The parent's chiding of the child for misbehaving was meant to correct future behaviour";
- scolding, objurgation, tongue-lashing
- Censure severely or angrily
"The deputy chided the Prime Minister";
- call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: chidings
Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], knock [informal], pick apart, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval