"castigate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US], /ˈkæs.tə.ɡeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US] Audio: en-us-castigate.ogg [US], en-au-castigate.ogg [Australia] Forms: castigates [present, singular, third-person], castigating [participle, present], castigated [participle, past], castigated [past]
Etymology: Early 17th cent., borrowed from Latin castīgātus, past participle of castīgō (“I reprove”), from castus (“pure, chaste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“cut”). Doublet of chastise and chasten, taken through Old French. See also chaste. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-}}, {{bor|en|la|castīgātus}} Latin castīgātus, {{m|la|castīgō||I reprove}} castīgō (“I reprove”), {{m|la|castus||pure, chaste}} castus (“pure, chaste”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*ḱes-||cut}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“cut”), {{doublet|en|chastise|chasten}} Doublet of chastise and chasten, {{l|en|chaste}} chaste Head templates: {{en-verb}} castigate (third-person singular simple present castigates, present participle castigating, simple past and past participle castigated)
  1. (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely. Tags: formal, transitive Synonyms (to criticize severely): condemn, lambaste Synonyms (to punish severely): chastise, punish, rebuke, reprimand Translations (to criticize something severely): осъждам (osǎždam) (alt: остро) (Bulgarian), критикувам (kritikuvam) (Bulgarian), mencela (Indonesian), mengkritik (Indonesian), mengecam (Indonesian), (ostro) potępiać [imperfective] (Polish), krytykować [imperfective] (Polish), piętnować [imperfective] (Polish), criticar duramente (Portuguese), criticar severamente (Portuguese), осужда́ть (osuždátʹ) (alt: жесто́ко) [imperfective] (Russian), критикова́ть (kritikovátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), odsudzovať [imperfective] (Slovak), ostro kritizovať [imperfective] (Slovak), criticar duramente (Spanish), criticar severamente (Spanish), censurar (Spanish), засуджувати (zasudžuvaty) (Ukrainian), критикувати (krytykuvaty) (Ukrainian) Translations (to punish or reprimand someone severely): наказвам (nakazvam) (alt: строго) (Bulgarian), порицавам (poricavam) (Bulgarian), châtier (French), castigar (Galician), reprender (Galician), bestrafen (German), strafen (German), menegur (Indonesian), mengecam (Indonesian), castīgō (Latin), (srogo) karcić [imperfective] (Polish), strofować [imperfective] (Polish), repreender (Portuguese), castigar (Portuguese), maqay (Quechua), кори́ть (korítʹ) (alt: жесто́ко) [imperfective] (Russian), нака́зывать (nakázyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), кара́ть (karátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), karhať [imperfective] (Slovak), dohovárať [imperfective] (Slovak), reprender (Spanish), castigar (Spanish), tukta (Swedish), карати (karaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-castigate-en-verb-rxQegOrk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 17 19 Disambiguation of 'to criticize severely': 76 22 2 Disambiguation of 'to punish severely': 93 5 3 Disambiguation of 'to criticize something severely': 70 28 2 Disambiguation of 'to punish or reprimand someone severely': 98 1 1
  2. (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism. Tags: formal, transitive
    Sense id: en-castigate-en-verb-TOsv6pKu
  3. (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication. Tags: rare, transitive Synonyms (to revise a publication): correct, revise Translations (to revise a publication): réviser (French), corriger (French), revidieren (German), korrigieren (German), poprawić [perfective] (Polish), korygować [imperfective] (Polish), виправляти (vypravljaty) (Ukrainian), коригувати (koryhuvaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-castigate-en-verb-bnDLmHkm Disambiguation of 'to revise a publication': 3 4 93 Disambiguation of 'to revise a publication': 3 4 93

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
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          "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
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          "roman": "karaty",
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          "alt": "остро",
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
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          "word": "(ostro) potępiać"
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
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          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
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          "word": "piętnować"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "word": "criticar duramente"
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "word": "criticar severamente"
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "alt": "жесто́ко",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "osuždátʹ",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "осужда́ть"
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kritikovátʹ",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "odsudzovať"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "word": "criticar duramente"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
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          "word": "criticar severamente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "word": "censurar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zasudžuvaty",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "word": "засуджувати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 28 2",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "krytykuvaty",
          "sense": "to criticize something severely",
          "word": "критикувати"
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        {
          "ref": "1573, The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, Three Worthy Martyrs And Principall Teachers of this Churche of England, Iohn Daye, page 280",
          "text": "God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner.",
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        {
          "ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 261",
          "text": "The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, page 150",
          "text": "But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.",
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          "ref": "2001, Klaus R. Scherer, Angela Schorr, Tom Johnstone, Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research, Oxford University Press, page 59",
          "text": "Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt.",
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          "ref": "2012, James King, Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, John Hunt Publishing, page 1",
          "text": "From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.",
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          "sense": "to revise a publication",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "to revise a publication",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to revise a publication",
          "word": "revidieren"
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          "_dis1": "3 4 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to revise a publication",
          "word": "korrigieren"
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          "_dis1": "3 4 93",
          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "to revise a publication",
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          "_dis1": "3 4 93",
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          "roman": "vypravljaty",
          "sense": "to revise a publication",
          "word": "виправляти"
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          "roman": "koryhuvaty",
          "sense": "to revise a publication",
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          "ref": "1573, The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, Three Worthy Martyrs And Principall Teachers of this Churche of England, Iohn Daye, page 280",
          "text": "God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner.",
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          "ref": "2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, page 150",
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      "sense": "to punish severely",
      "word": "chastise"
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      "sense": "to punish severely",
      "word": "punish"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to punish severely",
      "word": "rebuke"
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    {
      "sense": "to punish severely",
      "word": "reprimand"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to criticize severely",
      "word": "condemn"
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      "sense": "to criticize severely",
      "word": "lambaste"
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      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "correct"
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      "sense": "to revise a publication",
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      "alt": "строго",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nakazvam",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "наказвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "poricavam",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "порицавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "châtier"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "castigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "reprender"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "bestrafen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "strafen"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "menegur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "mengecam"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "castīgō"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "(srogo) karcić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "strofować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "repreender"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "castigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "maqay"
    },
    {
      "alt": "жесто́ко",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korítʹ",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "кори́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nakázyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "нака́зывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "karátʹ",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "кара́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "karhať"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dohovárať"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "reprender"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "castigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "tukta"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "karaty",
      "sense": "to punish or reprimand someone severely",
      "word": "карати"
    },
    {
      "alt": "остро",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "osǎždam",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "осъждам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kritikuvam",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "критикувам"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "mencela"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "mengkritik"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "mengecam"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "(ostro) potępiać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "krytykować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "piętnować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "criticar duramente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "criticar severamente"
    },
    {
      "alt": "жесто́ко",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "osuždátʹ",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "осужда́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kritikovátʹ",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "критикова́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odsudzovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ostro kritizovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "criticar duramente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "criticar severamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "censurar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zasudžuvaty",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "засуджувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "krytykuvaty",
      "sense": "to criticize something severely",
      "word": "критикувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "réviser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "corriger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "revidieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "korrigieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "poprawić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "korygować"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vypravljaty",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "виправляти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "koryhuvaty",
      "sense": "to revise a publication",
      "word": "коригувати"
    }
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  "word": "castigate"
}

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