Crossword-Solution: CHASTEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Chasten | v. t. | To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. |
| Chasten | v. t. | To purify from errors or faults; to refine. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| CHASTEN | anagram | NETCASH |
We have 56 clues for the answer “CHASTEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Punish in order to correct | 1 answer |
| CORRECT by suffering | 1 answer |
| Correct by punishment | 1 answer |
| Correct using reproof | 1 answer |
| DISCIPLINE by suffering | 1 answer |
| Punish at a Catholic school, say | 1 answer |
| Punish for the sake of moral improvement | 1 answer |
| Punish in order to improve | 1 answer |
| Punish, or purify | 1 answer |
| Make ashamed | 3 answers |
| Take down a peg | 9 answers |
| BY FINE PUNISH | 10 answers |
| BE ASHAMED | 10 answers |
| Corporally punish | 10 answers |
| CLASSICAL REBUKE | 10 answers |
| CALL ON THE CARPET | 17 answers |
| chastise | 23 answers |
| Abase | 28 answers |
| Punish | 32 answers |
| filtrate | 34 answers |
| Decontaminate | 34 answers |
| Chide | 35 answers |
| Expiate | 35 answers |
| expatiate | 36 answers |
| Launder | 37 answers |
| Humiliate | 40 answers |
| civilise | 42 answers |
| Embarrass | 42 answers |
| Scrub | 43 answers |
| absolve | 45 answers |
| Edify | 46 answers |
| filter | 47 answers |
| Winnow | 47 answers |
| distil | 48 answers |
| clarify | 50 answers |
| CALL to order | 52 answers |
| castigate | 52 answers |
| downgrade | 53 answers |
| Cleanse | 55 answers |
| clean up | 58 answers |
| restore | 58 answers |
| Scold | 62 answers |
| Refine | 64 answers |
| Carp | 64 answers |
| Subdue | 67 answers |
| Sort | 69 answers |
| rectify | 70 answers |
| Polish | 75 answers |
| Humble | 76 answers |
| Discipline | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMACZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CHASTEN (5)
Thank God that I have known a soul so true, So nobly just, so worthy to be loved!" Fatigue Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony, Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far, Chasten my steps to peaceful regularity, Bow down my head lest I behold a star.
Love to his own glad self is sometimes coy, And even thus much doth seem to do him wrong; While in the fears which chasten mortal joy, Is one that shuts the lips, lest speech too free, With the cold touch of hard reality, Should turn its priceless jewels into dust.
For what a roof was that above my head! Roof I call it, just as the poets in their poverty sometimes describe the infinite ethereal sky by that word; but it was no more roof-like and hindering to the soaring spirit than the higher clouds that float in changing forms and tints, and like the foliage chasten the intolerable noonday beams.
These, being unwilling to suppose that the Hellenes were in bondage to superstitions handed down from times of utter darkness and a bestial life, do chiefly hold with the heathen philosophers, even with the writers whom thou, most venerable, didst confound with thy wisdom and chasten with the scourge of small cords of thy wit.
For war is of two kinds, civil and foreign; the first of which is properly termed ‘discord,’ and only the second ‘war;’ and war between Hellenes is in reality civil war—a quarrel in a family, which is ever to be regarded as unpatriotic and unnatural, and ought to be prosecuted with a view to reconciliation in a true phil-Hellenic spirit, as of those who would chasten but not utterly enslave.
Quotes with CHASTEN (3)
For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and …
If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1972–2023).