Definition for Chastise:

• To punish with a view to correction; to punish; to reduce to order or obedience.

Synonyms for Chastise:

• n.

  •
  • cane.
  •chastise (noun)
  • correct.

• v.

  •disapprove (verb)
  • condemn,
  • admonish,
  • discredit,
  • chide,
  • reproach,
  • defame,
  • renounce,
  • disparage,
  • deprecate,
  • vilify,
  • scorn,
  • deride,
  • denigrate,
  • defile,
  • denounce.
  •punish (verb)
  • agonize,
  • anguish,
  • execute,
  • afflict,
  • crucify,
  • lambaste,
  • persecute,
  • imprison,
  • Keelhaul,
  • reprise,
  • incarcerate,
  • sentence,
  • try,
  • distress,
  • pillory,
  • avenge,
  • confine,
  • torture.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • licking,
  • hiding.
  •
  • birch,
  • rebuke,
  • reprimand,
  • scold,
  • rap,
  • reprove.
  •
  • paddle.
  •
  • stone.
  •
  • stock.
  •
  • call.
  •berate
  • objurgate.
  •condemn
  • disapprove.
  •criticize
  • skin alive,
  • jump on.
  •destroy
  • smite.
  •flog
  • ferule,
  • leather,
  • tan hide,
  • trounce.
  •punish
  • penalize.
  •Other relevant words:
  • bully,
  • retaliate,
  • switch,
  • domineer,
  • mind,
  • lambast,
  • smack,
  • subjugate,
  • deserts,
  • make fast,
  • cool down,
  • set down,
  • tyrannize,
  • bastinado,
  • stamp out,
  • penalty,
  • reciprocate,
  • usurp,
  • forge,
  • baste,
  • pay out,
  • carpet,
  • retaliation,
  • pay back,
  • flagellate,
  • dress down,
  • hit back,
  • whack,
  • pay,
  • penalisation,
  • phrase,
  • tick off,
  • overpower,
  • rectify,
  • discretion,
  • belabor,
  • vengeance,
  • beat off,
  • judgement,
  • doom,
  • override,
  • coerce,
  • hammer,
  • deal with,
  • lay into,
  • limit,
  • moderate,
  • flay,
  • defeat,
  • jump all over,
  • fin,
  • give a dressing-down,
  • rail at,
  • climb all over,
  • tan,
  • batter,
  • arrogate,
  • set,
  • sort out,
  • ream,
  • determination,
  • bawl out,
  • pole,
  • amercement,
  • chew out,
  • chastisement,
  • belabour,
  • cudgel,
  • infliction,
  • judgment,
  • discrimination,
  • bring to book,
  • quash,
  • set straight,
  • pummel,
  • berate,
  • straighten out,
  • masthead,
  • haul over the coals,
  • deal hardly with,
  • spank,
  • revenge,
  • wale,
  • slap down,
  • reprehend,
  • repress,
  • settle,
  • decry,
  • call on the carpet,
  • strike back,
  • compensate,
  • quell,
  • discernment,
  • subdue,
  • requite,
  • strap,
  • give no quarter,
  • slap wrist,
  • vanquish,
  • assessment,
  • make pay,
  • wallop,
  • suppress,
  • square accounts,
  • rap knuckles,
  • penalise,
  • condemnation,
  • trim,
  • inflict,
  • get back,
  • let someone have it,
  • oppress,
  • tax,
  • overcome,
  • torment,
  • Skelp,
  • trample upon,
  • belief,
  • take down,
  • bash,
  • beat,
  • retribution,
  • assume,
  • catch,
  • rod,
  • call to account,
  • amendment,
  • payment,
  • castigation,
  • throw down,
  • gibbet,
  • settle with,
  • lecture,
  • repay,
  • thresh,
  • penalization,
  • decision,
  • requital,
  • conviction,
  • punishment,
  • correction,
  • rate,
  • get even,
  • trample under foot,
  • tame,
  • adjustment,
  • blow up,
  • cowhide,
  • wreak,
  • slap,
  • overhaul,
  • run across,
  • chaste,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • thwack,
  • tread under foot,
  • Chastiser,
  • pain.

Paraphrases for Chastise:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    penalise, criminalize, prosecute.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    punish, sanction, penalize.

Antonyms for Chastise:

• v.

  • scold, discipline
    cheer, guard, comfort, promote, help, compliment, forgive, lose, aid, assist, encourage, protect, inspirit.
  • Other antonyms:
    commute, fall, endorse, absolve, sanction, acquit, approve, go under, ransom, spare, excuse, go down, praise, laud, exculpate, forfeit, reprieve, surrender, get off, extol, release, fail, exonerate, vindicate, pardon.