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"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "eat someone alive"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "excoriate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "find fault"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "fulminate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "get at"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "get down"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"tags": [
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"Britain"
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"word": "get up"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "give somebody what-for"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "lace into"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "lay into"
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"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "lecture"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "light into"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "objurgate"
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"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "pooh-pooh"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "rate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "read somebody the riot act"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "rebuke"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "reprehend"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "reprimand"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "reproach"
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"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "reprove"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "rip into"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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"Britain"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "savage"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "scold"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "skewer"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "slam"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "slate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "tear into"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "tell off"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "threap"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
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"word": "tick off"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"tags": [
"Britain"
],
"word": "tosh"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "keelhaul"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "upbraid"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "vilify"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:criticize",
"word": "vituperate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"word": "amerce"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"word": "castigate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"archaic"
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"word": "chastise"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"word": "come down on"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"word": "correct"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "fix someone's wagon"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"idiomatic"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"figuratively",
"idiomatic"
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"word": "have someone's head"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "have someone's hide"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"word": "give it to someone"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"idiomatic",
"slang"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"idiomatic"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"dated"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
"word": "nail someone to the wall"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"slang"
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"source": "Thesaurus:punish",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "light into"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "onfall"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "overrun"
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "rush"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "set the dogs upon"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "set upon"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "storm"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "strike"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
"word": "strike at"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"source": "Thesaurus:attack",
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"transitive"
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"To cause melancholy in (someone)."
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"archaic"
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"archaic"
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"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "dash"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "deject"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "depress"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "desolate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "dispirit"
},
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"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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"archaic"
],
"word": "engrieve"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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"UK",
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],
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "get down"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "grieven"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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"archaic"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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"obsolete"
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "sadden"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "sadden up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "tristitiate"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "ungladden"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
"word": "unhappy"
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"source": "Thesaurus:sadden",
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