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vituperateverb to criticize harshly and usually publiclyevery week the minister would ascend the pulpit and vituperate the parishioners for a litany of vices abuse, assail, attack, bash, belabor, blast, castigate, excoriate, jump (on), lambaste(or lambast), potshot, savage, scathe, slam, trash berate, harangue, harass, harry, revile, scold, whipblaspheme, curse, execrate, imprecate, profaneaffront, insult, slurasperse, bad-mouth, belittle, blackguard, disparage, put downlibel, slander, traduce, vilifychastise, chide, criticize, lace (into), rebuke, reprimandfulminate, lash (out) beat up on, light into, sail into, tie into acclaim, commend, compliment, hail, laud, praise scold, upbraid, berate, rail, revile, vituperate mean to reproach angrily and abusively.scold implies rebuking in irritation or ill temper justly or unjustly.angrily scolding the children upbraid implies censuring on definite and usually justifiable grounds.upbraided her assistants for poor research berate suggests prolonged and often abusive scolding.berated continually by an overbearing boss rail (at or against) stresses an unrestrained berating.railed loudly at their insolence revile implies a scurrilous, abusive attack prompted by anger or hatred.an alleged killer reviled in the press vituperate suggests a violent reviling.was vituperated for betraying his friends in 1542 |