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lecturesverbpresent tense third-person singular of lecture to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsthe frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service bastes, bawls out, berates, calls down, castigates, chastises, chews out, dresses down, flays, hammers, jaws, keelhauls, lambastes(or lambasts), rags, rails (at or against), rants (at), rates, reams (out), rebukes, reprimands, reproaches, scolds, scores, tongue-lashes, upbraids admonishes, chides, remonstrates (with), reprovesabuses, assails, attacks, bad-mouths, blames, blasts, censures, condemns, criticizes, crucifies, denounces, disses(slang), excoriates, faults, harangues, knocks, laces (into), lashes, pans, reprehends, reviles, scourges, slams, vituperatesbelittles, disparages, mocks, puts downridicules, scoffs, scorns lays into, reads the riot act (to), takes to task approves, endorses(also indorses), sanctionsextols(also extolls), lauds, praises 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 declaims, descants, discourses, expatiates, harangues, orates, speaks, talks recites, soliloquizesdisserts, expounds, pontificates, sermonizesmouths, spoutsfilibusters holds forth, takes the floor |