Synonyms for Chastise:

• n.

  •
  • put down.
  •
  • cane,
  • the birch,
  • reward.
  •chastise (noun)
  • correct.
  •scold (noun)
  • study at punish.

• v.

  •avenge (verb)
  • evening score,
  • paybacked,
  • comes back at,
  • sticks it to,
  • re dress,
  • re dresses,
  • re-tribute,
  • re quite,
  • took satisfaction,
  • evens score,
  • taking vengeance,
  • venges,
  • evens the score,
  • re tributes,
  • re-paid,
  • re-pays,
  • re venge,
  • evened the score,
  • re pays,
  • re dressing,
  • re venges,
  • even score,
  • came back at,
  • re-venging,
  • taking satisfaction,
  • takes satisfaction,
  • paybacking,
  • takes vengeance,
  • retributes,
  • re-quite,
  • re-dressed,
  • re-dresses,
  • retributing,
  • re-venge,
  • re-venges,
  • re-venged,
  • stuck it to,
  • re venging,
  • evened score,
  • sticked to,
  • sticked it to,
  • sticking it to,
  • re dressed,
  • sticking to,
  • took vengeance,
  • coming back at,
  • re-tributes,
  • venged,
  • re-paying,
  • re tribute,
  • re pay,
  • re-dressing,
  • re paid,
  • retributed,
  • re-pay,
  • re venged,
  • re paying,
  • evening the score,
  • re-dress.
  •castigate (verb)
  • be-rated,
  • jumped down one's throat,
  • be rate,
  • tonguelashing,
  • be-rates,
  • jumped down throat,
  • tongue lashes,
  • jumps down throat,
  • dragged over coals,
  • leans on,
  • tongue-lashed,
  • jumps down one throat,
  • tongue lashing,
  • jumping down one throat,
  • be rated,
  • dragging over coals,
  • drags over coals,
  • reads riot act,
  • reading the riot act,
  • drag over coals,
  • jump down one throat,
  • dragged over the coals,
  • jumping down ones throat,
  • jumps down one's throat,
  • tongue lashed,
  • tongue-lashes,
  • leaned on,
  • be rating,
  • reading riot act,
  • be rates,
  • be-rate,
  • jumped down ones throat,
  • reads the riot act,
  • tonguelash,
  • be-rating,
  • dragging over the coals,
  • drags over the coals,
  • leant on,
  • jumping down throat,
  • jumping down one's throat,
  • tonguelashed,
  • jumped down one throat,
  • lays out,
  • jump down ones throat,
  • tonguelashes,
  • jumps down ones throat.
  •censure (verb)
  • ex-probate,
  • ex-probates,
  • re proving,
  • re-buffing,
  • took to task,
  • re prove,
  • pulling apart,
  • in criminated,
  • exprobates,
  • ex-probating,
  • finding fault with,
  • getting after,
  • re-buffs,
  • in criminating,
  • ex probated,
  • in-criminated,
  • take task,
  • re proved,
  • got after,
  • re-buff,
  • finds fault with,
  • picked apart,
  • carped at,
  • tare apart,
  • exprobated,
  • takes to task,
  • ex probates,
  • re buff,
  • in criminates,
  • carping at,
  • ex-probated,
  • reads out,
  • pulled apart,
  • re-buffed,
  • re-proved,
  • tears apart,
  • looked askance,
  • looks askance,
  • re-prove,
  • in-criminates,
  • in-criminate,
  • takes task,
  • found fault with,
  • took task,
  • gotten after,
  • re buffed,
  • exprobating,
  • in-criminating,
  • ex probate,
  • re buffing,
  • re-proving,
  • picking apart,
  • gets after,
  • in criminate,
  • carps at,
  • looking askance,
  • taking task,
  • re buffs,
  • re-proves,
  • taking to task,
  • re proves,
  • gat after,
  • ex probating,
  • picks apart.
  •chasten (verb)
  • fulminated against,
  • fulminating against,
  • calls down,
  • re straining,
  • had on carpet,
  • had the carpet,
  • have on carpet,
  • hadst on carpet,
  • sub-due,
  • sub due,
  • re-strain,
  • re-straining,
  • fulminates against,
  • hadst the carpet,
  • hath carpet,
  • hath the carpet,
  • has carpet,
  • co-wing,
  • hadst carpet,
  • haddest carpet,
  • has on the carpet,
  • co wing,
  • called down,
  • having on the carpet,
  • re-pressing,
  • re-press,
  • had carpet,
  • re-presses,
  • re press,
  • have carpet,
  • hast on carpet,
  • hast on the carpet,
  • re pressed,
  • have the carpet,
  • having on carpet,
  • having carpet,
  • re strains,
  • has the carpet,
  • co-wed,
  • re pressing,
  • re presses,
  • re strain,
  • had on the carpet,
  • re strained,
  • sub-dues,
  • co wed,
  • sub dues,
  • re-strained,
  • hath on the carpet,
  • hadst on the carpet,
  • haddest on the carpet,
  • hast the carpet,
  • haddest on carpet,
  • having the carpet,
  • hath on carpet,
  • has on carpet,
  • haddest the carpet,
  • re-strains,
  • hast carpet.
  •criticize (verb)
  • doing number on,
  • didst number on,
  • doeth number on,
  • fustigates,
  • gives bad press,
  • dost number on,
  • nit pick,
  • giving bad press,
  • jumping on,
  • nit-picked,
  • doeth a number on,
  • nagged at,
  • found fault,
  • doth a number on,
  • denunciates,
  • re probate,
  • denunciating,
  • did a number on,
  • finds fault,
  • re probates,
  • does a number on,
  • re probated,
  • cutting bits,
  • nit-picks,
  • denunciated,
  • doth number on,
  • finding fault,
  • skins alive,
  • didst a number on,
  • fustigated,
  • cuts to bits,
  • doest number on,
  • cutting to bits,
  • re-probates,
  • nags at,
  • nit picks,
  • nit picked,
  • re-probating,
  • animadverted on,
  • fustigating,
  • nit picking,
  • dost a number on,
  • cut bits,
  • re probating,
  • did number on,
  • does number on,
  • re-probated,
  • animadverting on,
  • cuts bits,
  • nagging at,
  • animadverts on,
  • doest a number on,
  • gave bad press,
  • doing a number on,
  • re-probate,
  • jumps on.
  •disapprove (verb)
  • condemn,
  • admonish,
  • discredit,
  • chide,
  • reproach,
  • defame,
  • renounce,
  • disparage,
  • deprecate,
  • vilify,
  • scorn,
  • deride,
  • denigrate,
  • defile,
  • denounce.
  •excoriate (verb)
  • tare in to,
  • tears in to,
  • tare into,
  • torn in to,
  • tears into,
  • tear in to,
  • tearing into,
  • tore into,
  • re vile,
  • re-vile,
  • tearing in to,
  • torn into,
  • tore in to.
  •flog (verb)
  • gave the cat o'nine tails,
  • ferruled,
  • gives cat o'nine tails,
  • giving cat o'nine tails,
  • flaxing,
  • tanning one's hide,
  • gives the cat o'nine tails,
  • tans ones hide,
  • gave the cat onine tails,
  • giving the cat o'nine tails,
  • Feruling,
  • give the cat onine tails,
  • flaxed,
  • tan one hide,
  • tanned ones hide,
  • tans one's hide,
  • tan ones hide,
  • tanned one's hide,
  • give cat o'nine tails,
  • tanning ones hide,
  • tanning one hide,
  • whomped,
  • tans one hide,
  • giving the cat onine tails,
  • tanned one hide,
  • Feruled,
  • gives cat onine tails,
  • flaxes,
  • gives the cat onine tails,
  • gave cat onine tails,
  • give cat onine tails,
  • gave cat o'nine tails,
  • tans hide,
  • tanning hide,
  • giving cat onine tails.
  •objurgate (verb)
  • gives hell,
  • jumping over,
  • giving one hell,
  • gave hell,
  • jumps over,
  • gives one hell,
  • jumps all over,
  • jumped all over,
  • giving hell,
  • gave one hell,
  • jumping all over.
  •punish (verb)
  • agonize,
  • anguish,
  • execute,
  • afflict,
  • crucify,
  • lambaste,
  • persecute,
  • imprison,
  • Keelhaul,
  • reprise,
  • incarcerate,
  • sentence,
  • try,
  • distress,
  • pillory,
  • avenge,
  • confine,
  • torture.
  •spank (verb)
  • put over one knee,
  • blipping,
  • putting over one's knee,
  • put over knee,
  • whupping,
  • put over ones knee,
  • whupped,
  • putting over ones knee,
  • putting over knee,
  • puts over one's knee,
  • whups,
  • putting over one knee,
  • puts over one knee,
  • puts over knee,
  • puts over ones knee.
  •strike (verb)
  • Percussing,
  • boffed,
  • ran in to,
  • Percussed,
  • bump in to,
  • runs in to,
  • smash in to,
  • run in to,
  • smashes in to,
  • smashes into,
  • running in to,
  • smashing in to,
  • smashed in to,
  • percusses,
  • smashed into,
  • boffing,
  • boffs,
  • smashing into.
  •thrash (verb)
  • be labors,
  • tossing turn,
  • over-whelms,
  • tosses and turn,
  • tossing and turn,
  • be labored,
  • over whelms,
  • de-feat,
  • de feats,
  • tossed turn,
  • over whelm,
  • over-whelmed,
  • tossed and turn,
  • tost and turn,
  • toss turn,
  • tost turn,
  • be-labor,
  • be-laboring,
  • over-whelming,
  • de-feats,
  • over whelming,
  • over whelmed,
  • over-whelm,
  • be laboring,
  • be-labored,
  • wrought over,
  • de feat,
  • tosses turn,
  • works over,
  • be-labors,
  • be labor.
  •upbraid (verb)
  • lit in to,
  • lighted into,
  • gave a talking-to,
  • gives talking-to,
  • give talking-to,
  • giving a talkingto,
  • giving talking-to,
  • lays down law,
  • lighting into,
  • gives a talking-to,
  • gave a talking to,
  • give a talkingto,
  • gave talking-to,
  • gave talking to,
  • up braiding,
  • giving talking to,
  • lights into,
  • give talking to,
  • giving a talking-to,
  • giving a talking to,
  • light in to,
  • lay down law,
  • gives a talking to,
  • gives talkingto,
  • up braid,
  • up braids,
  • lit into,
  • laid down the law,
  • lighting in to,
  • gives a talkingto,
  • laying down law,
  • lighted in to,
  • up braided,
  • up-braids,
  • gave a talkingto,
  • give talkingto,
  • gives talking to,
  • up-braiding,
  • up-braid,
  • laying down the law,
  • lights in to,
  • gave talkingto,
  • laid down law,
  • up-braided,
  • giving talkingto.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • corporal punishment,
  • take down a peg,
  • flogging,
  • whipping,
  • beating,
  • thrashing,
  • hiding,
  • licking.
  •
  • rebuke,
  • birch,
  • reprimand,
  • rap,
  • hurt,
  • reprove,
  • scold.
  •
  • bawl out,
  • chew out,
  • tax,
  • dress down.
  •
  • rack.
  •
  • paddle.
  •
  • stone,
  • dress.
  •
  • stock.
  •
  • call.
  •berate
  • objurgate.
  •condemn
  • disapprove.
  •criticize
  • ripping,
  • reprobates,
  • roast,
  • find fault,
  • nit-pick,
  • jump on,
  • nitpick,
  • animadvert on,
  • give bad press,
  • skin alive,
  • Fustigate,
  • nit-picking,
  • do number on,
  • cut to bits,
  • Denunciate,
  • fluffed,
  • nag at,
  • skinned alive,
  • fluffing,
  • Reprobating,
  • jumped on,
  • Trashed,
  • Reprobated,
  • skinning alive,
  • do a number on.
  •destroy
  • smite.
  •disapprove
  • turn down,
  • Discommend,
  • Disfavored,
  • veto,
  • Dispraising,
  • set aside,
  • frown on,
  • Disfavoring,
  • object to,
  • passed on,
  • passes on,
  • find unacceptable,
  • passing on,
  • nixing,
  • take exception to,
  • frowned on,
  • dispraise,
  • Dispraised,
  • zinging,
  • look askance at,
  • setting aside,
  • take dim view of,
  • dispraises,
  • pass on.
  •excoriate
  • tear into.
  •flog
  • leather,
  • ferule,
  • give the cat o'nine tails,
  • larrup,
  • ferules,
  • whops,
  • whacking,
  • whomp,
  • Larruped,
  • whomps,
  • whop,
  • Whaled,
  • leathered,
  • tan hide,
  • striping,
  • Leathering,
  • Larruping,
  • tan one's hide,
  • whacked,
  • whomping,
  • tanned hide,
  • larrups,
  • flax,
  • Whaling,
  • trounce,
  • whopped.
  •objurgate
  • give hell,
  • give one hell,
  • jumped over,
  • jump over.
  •penalize
  • inflict handicap,
  • hit with,
  • put at disadvantage,
  • impose penalty,
  • throw the book at,
  • slap with,
  • throw book at.
  •punish
  • defrock,
  • crack down on,
  • attended to,
  • attend to,
  • give a going over,
  • knock about,
  • cracking down on,
  • defrocking,
  • penalize,
  • give the works,
  • defrocked,
  • teach a lesson.
  •spank
  • blipped,
  • Welting,
  • put over one's knee,
  • whup,
  • Welted.
  •thrash
  • work over,
  • Birched,
  • Birching,
  • worked over,
  • Birches,
  • toss and turn.
  •Other relevant words:
  • carpet,
  • overcome,
  • beat,
  • settle with,
  • requite,
  • discrimination,
  • make fast,
  • repay,
  • slap down,
  • Skelp,
  • belabor,
  • overpower,
  • inflict,
  • limit,
  • chaste,
  • deal hardly with,
  • hammer,
  • lay into,
  • condemnation,
  • trim,
  • vengeance,
  • punishment,
  • penalise,
  • give no quarter,
  • hit back,
  • call to account,
  • wale,
  • amercement,
  • deserts,
  • Chastiser,
  • pain,
  • flagellate,
  • moderate,
  • stamp out,
  • pay out,
  • give a dressing-down,
  • payment,
  • defeat,
  • quell,
  • belabour orbelabor,
  • judgement,
  • settle,
  • pay back,
  • get back,
  • overhaul,
  • judgment,
  • correction,
  • tick off,
  • make pay,
  • quash,
  • coerce,
  • retribution,
  • climb all over,
  • rate,
  • square accounts,
  • beat off,
  • phrase,
  • compensate,
  • wreak,
  • slap,
  • assessment,
  • usurp,
  • retaliate,
  • conviction,
  • repress,
  • fin,
  • assume,
  • strike back,
  • tread under foot,
  • cudgel,
  • rectify,
  • amendment,
  • lambast,
  • requital,
  • set down,
  • jump all over,
  • belief,
  • set,
  • determination,
  • smack,
  • discernment,
  • bastinado,
  • cowhide,
  • switch,
  • take down,
  • torment,
  • baste,
  • castigation,
  • rod,
  • rap knuckles,
  • subjugate,
  • discretion,
  • cool down,
  • subdue,
  • forge,
  • domineer,
  • deal with,
  • let someone have it,
  • retaliation,
  • suppress,
  • bring to book,
  • rail at,
  • set straight,
  • bring to account,
  • mind,
  • ream,
  • throw down,
  • straighten out,
  • trample upon,
  • wallop,
  • doom,
  • reciprocate,
  • call on the carpet,
  • berate,
  • haul over the coals,
  • pole,
  • batter,
  • tyrannize,
  • blow up,
  • adjustment,
  • trample under foot,
  • thresh,
  • masthead,
  • sort out,
  • tan,
  • slap wrist,
  • chastisement,
  • revenge,
  • infliction,
  • run across,
  • bully,
  • belabour,
  • penalisation,
  • reprehend,
  • penalty,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • penalization,
  • bash,
  • thwack,
  • decision,
  • gibbet,
  • tame,
  • flay,
  • oppress,
  • decry,
  • arrogate,
  • get even,
  • pummel,
  • spank,
  • vanquish,
  • lecture,
  • whack,
  • strap,
  • pay,
  • override,
  • bring to task,
  • catch.

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.