Crossword-Solution: CHASTISE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chastise | v. t. | To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes. |
| Chastise | v. t. | To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “CHASTISE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Severely reprimand | 1 answer |
| Apply the paddle | 1 answer |
| Reprimand severely | 3 answers |
| PUNISH person | 7 answers |
| CENSURE OR CRITICIZE | 10 answers |
| CENSURE SEVERELY OR ANGRILY | 11 answers |
| let have it | 12 answers |
| Criticize sharply | 13 answers |
| TAKE to task | 14 answers |
| CALL ON THE CARPET | 17 answers |
| Dress down | 19 answers |
| Chew (out) | 21 answers |
| CRITICIZE SEVERELY | 27 answers |
| Punish | 32 answers |
| Chide | 35 answers |
| Whip | 47 answers |
| castigate | 52 answers |
| chasten | 52 answers |
| make unhappy | 59 answers |
| Scourge | 59 answers |
| reform | 70 answers |
| Reprimand | 73 answers |
| reproach | 82 answers |
| Discipline | 88 answers |
| Censure | 93 answers |
| BEAT ___ | 125 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
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CHASTISE (5)
Terkoz knew that it was against the laws of his kind to strike this woman of another, but being a bully, he had taken advantage of the weakness of the female’s husband to chastise her because she had refused to give up to him a tender young rodent she had captured.
Neither does he receive or let pass into the fortress any true word of advice; if any one says to him that some pleasures are the satisfactions of good and noble desires, and others of evil desires, and that he ought to use and honour some and chastise and master the others--whenever this is repeated to him he shakes his head and says that they are all alike, and that one is as good as another.
True it is that whiles the house-thralls be sent into the fields for their punishment; yet not such as she, unless the master be wholly wearied of them, or if their wrath outrun their wits; for it is more to the master's profit to chastise them at home; so keep a good heart I bid thee, and maybe we shall have tidings at Whiteness." So Ralph refrained his anxious heart, though forsooth his thought was much upon the damsel and of how she was faring.
Bot I thee schal chastise nou; Thi grete beaute schal be torned, Thurgh which that thou hast be mistorned, Thi large frount, thin yhen greie, I schal hem change in other weie, And al the feture of thi face In such a wise I schal deface, That every man thee schal forbere.” With that the liknesse of a bere 6310 Sche tok and was forschape anon.
The Colonel’s rage knew no bounds; he rode in great haste to the gymnasium, reviled the teacher for presuming to chastise HIS son, and committed the boy to the care of a private tutor.
Quotes with CHASTISE (3)
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.
Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes, all the time" seduction policy. I wanted to come home and tell someone about my day. I wanted to go out dancing on the weekends. I wanted to take vacations together. I wanted someone to hold me when I was upset, when the ups and downs of the world pushed me too far. I wanted someone to love.
Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined from other kings whose granaries ar…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1970–2010).