| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes: fishwife, fury, harpy, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen. Informal : battle-ax. See PRAISE. | | VERB: | To criticize for a fault or an offense: admonish, call down, castigate, chastise, chide, dress down, rap1, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, tax, upbraid. Informal : bawl out, lambaste. Slang : chew out. Idioms: bring (or call) (or take) to task, call on the carpet, haul (or rake) over the coals, let someone have it. See ATTACK, PRAISE.
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