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lecturedverbpast tense of lecture to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsthe frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service basted, bawled out, berated, called down, castigated, chastised, chewed out, dressed down, flayed, hammered, jawed, keelhauled, lambasted, ragged, railed (at or against), ranted (at), rated, reamed (out), rebuked, reprimanded, reproached, scolded, scored, tongue-lashed, upbraided admonished, chid(or chided), remonstrated (with), reprovedabused, assailed, attacked, bad-mouthed, blamed, blasted, censured, condemned, criticized, crucified, denounced, dissed(slang), excoriated, faulted, harangued, knocked, laced (into), lashed, panned, reprehended, reviled, scourged, slammed, vituperatedbelittled, disparaged, mocked, put downridiculed, scoffed, scorned laid into, read the riot act (to), took to task approved, endorsed(also indorsed), sanctionedextolled, lauded, praised 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 declaimed, descanted, discoursed, expatiated, harangued, orated, spoke, talked recited, soliloquizeddisserted, expounded, pontificated, sermonizedmouthed, spoutedfilibustered held forth, took the floor |