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lectureverb to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsthe frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service baste, bawl out, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chew out, dress down, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, lambaste(or lambast), rag, rail (at or against), rant (at), rate, ream (out), rebuke, reprimand, reproach, scold, score, tongue-lash, upbraid admonish, chide, remonstrate (with), reproveabuse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, blame, blast, censure, condemn, criticize, crucify, denounce, dis(also diss, slang), excoriate, fault, harangue, knock, lace (into), lash, pan, reprehend, revile, scourge, slam, vituperatebelittle, disparage, mock, put downridicule, scoff, scorn lay into, read the riot act (to), take to task approve, endorse(also indorse), sanctionextol(also extoll), laud, praise to give a formal often extended talk on a subjecta physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease declaim, descant, discourse, expatiate, harangue, orate, speak, talk recite, soliloquizedissert, expound, pontificate, sermonizemouth, spoutfilibuster hold forth, take the floor in the 15th century |