Meanings (ES + gloss)
castigar • escarmentar • regañar
To punish, especially by corporal punishment.
An army was sent to chastise an unoffending people; to subdue an imaginary insurrection.
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heauy yoke, I wil adde to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whippes, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
regañar • reprehender
To castigate; to scold or censure.
Only last year Attorney General Edwin Meese chastised the Supreme Court for a series of decisions based on the legal doctrine of “indoctrination”—that is, that the 14th Amendment r…
She feels definitely that Lung Shing is her town, and is not hesitant to chastise people who she thinks are not behaving properly—such as, for example, a woman using loud, vulgar l…