Crossword-Solution: REPROVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reprove | v. t. | To convince. |
| Reprove | v. t. | To disprove; to refute. |
| Reprove | v. t. | To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure. |
| Reprove | v. t. | To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults. |
We have 37 clues for the answer “REPROVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Correct with kindness | 1 answer |
| Scold gently | 2 answers |
| objurgate | 8 answers |
| tell off | 10 answers |
| CENSURE OR CRITICIZE | 10 answers |
| CHIDE, AS A CHILD | 10 answers |
| A PARTIAL EXCUSE TO MITIGATE CENSURE | 10 answers |
| reproof | 11 answers |
| CENSURE SEVERELY OR ANGRILY | 11 answers |
| reprehend | 13 answers |
| Remind | 13 answers |
| TAKE to task | 14 answers |
| Dress down | 19 answers |
| Snub | 20 answers |
| Call to account. | 20 answers |
| remonstrate | 20 answers |
| flay | 22 answers |
| chastise | 23 answers |
| Trounce | 29 answers |
| criticise | 31 answers |
| Upbraid | 31 answers |
| call down | 33 answers |
| Chide | 35 answers |
| Berate | 35 answers |
| Notify | 36 answers |
| Admonish | 40 answers |
| Warn | 40 answers |
| Lambaste | 51 answers |
| Inform | 52 answers |
| castigate | 52 answers |
| Lesson | 61 answers |
| Scold | 62 answers |
| Denounce | 63 answers |
| Rebuke | 71 answers |
| Reprimand | 73 answers |
| reproach | 82 answers |
| Censure | 93 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
AZECME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REPROVE (5)
But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
She ridiculed, in the raciest slang, the singers they had heard at the opera the night before, and when her aunt pretended to reprove her, she murmured indifferently, “What’s the matter with you, old sport?” She rattled on with a subdued loquaciousness, always keeping her voice low and monotonous, always looking out of the corner of her eye and speaking, as it were, in asides, out of the corner of her mouth.
Knightley have been privy to all her attempts of assisting Jane Fairfax, could he even have seen into her heart, he would not, on this occasion, have found any thing to reprove.
They want the hatchway shut down, that the monster may crawl in his den of darkness, crushing human hopes and happiness, destroying the bondman at will, and having no one to reprove or rebuke him.
Young men are often rash, but it is not well to reprove one for a brave deed lest he become a coward.
Quotes with REPROVE (3)
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.
Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this occasion we shall disregard Anytus and acquit you, but only on one condition, that you give up spending your time on this quest and stop philosophizing. If we catch you going on in the same way, you shall be put to death.' Well, supposing, as I said, that you should offer to acquit me on these terms, I should reply 'Gentlemen, I am your very grateful and devoted servant, but I ow…
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1988–2023).