Synonyms for Upbraid:

• n.

  •
  • savage,
  • tear someone/something to pieces/shreds,
  • tell off,
  • take/bring/hold someone to task,
  • harangue.
  •come down on (noun)
  • come.
  •reproach (noun)
  • dispraise,
  • expostulate,
  • reprobate,
  • rake,
  • oppugn,
  • impeach,
  • clamor against,
  • stigmatize,
  • arraign,
  • controvert,
  • flout,
  • give the lie to,
  • hiss,
  • brand.

• v.

  •abuse (verb)
  • cap,
  • cut down,
  • decry,
  • vilify,
  • backbite,
  • bad-mouth,
  • persecute,
  • bash,
  • smear,
  • derogate,
  • discount,
  • belittle,
  • oppress,
  • minimize,
  • calumniate,
  • defame,
  • run down,
  • insult,
  • zing.
  •admonish (verb)
  • draw the line,
  • advise,
  • enjoin,
  • hoist,
  • notice,
  • check,
  • Forewarn,
  • ding,
  • warn,
  • counsel.
  •bawl out (verb)
  • haddest words,
  • had words,
  • has words,
  • hast words,
  • having words,
  • hath words,
  • hadst words.
  •berate (verb)
  • scorch,
  • blister,
  • rail at,
  • tongue-lash,
  • jump all over,
  • eat out,
  • give one hell,
  • rate,
  • give what for,
  • jaw.
  •blame (verb)
  • saddle,
  • roast,
  • frame,
  • indict,
  • charge,
  • express disapprobation,
  • disapprove,
  • hold responsible,
  • pass the buck,
  • let one have it,
  • impute,
  • lower the boom,
  • lay to,
  • lay a bad trip on,
  • blow the whistle on,
  • stick it to,
  • attribute,
  • blast,
  • tax,
  • jump down one's throat,
  • climb all over,
  • Denunciate,
  • point the finger,
  • reprehend,
  • ascribe,
  • find fault with,
  • lay at one's door.
  •castigate (verb)
  • discipline,
  • drub,
  • flay,
  • scourge,
  • baste,
  • come down on,
  • scarify,
  • beat,
  • scathe,
  • lay out,
  • penalize,
  • cane,
  • rail,
  • punish,
  • correct,
  • flog,
  • whip,
  • pummel,
  • thrash.
  •censure (verb)
  • rebuff,
  • ostracize,
  • contemn,
  • asperse,
  • deprecate,
  • judge,
  • disparage,
  • knock,
  • cut up,
  • impugn,
  • cavil,
  • attack,
  • denigrate.
  •chasten (verb)
  • restrain,
  • abase,
  • humble,
  • cow,
  • soften,
  • tame,
  • repress,
  • afflict,
  • try,
  • curb,
  • subdue.
  •chastise (verb)
  • lay into.
  •chide (verb)
  • take down,
  • slap on the wrist.
  •condemn (verb)
  • pins it on,
  • sent up river,
  • hangs something on,
  • pinned it on,
  • thumbsing down on,
  • passed sentence on,
  • re probated,
  • hanging something on,
  • re-probates,
  • thumbses down on,
  • pinning it on,
  • pro-scribe,
  • sending up,
  • hung something on,
  • passes sentence on,
  • pro scribe,
  • hanged something on,
  • points finger at,
  • pro scribing,
  • pointed finger at,
  • sent the river,
  • send the river,
  • sends up the river,
  • re probate,
  • sent river,
  • send river,
  • re-probating,
  • sending up river,
  • sent up the river,
  • pro scribed,
  • pro-scribing,
  • pro-scribes,
  • re-probated,
  • passing sentence on,
  • sends up river,
  • sends river,
  • thumbsed down on,
  • re probates,
  • pointing finger at,
  • sending river,
  • sends the river,
  • re probating,
  • pro scribes,
  • re-probate,
  • pro-scribed,
  • sending the river,
  • send up river.
  •denounce (verb)
  • de claiming,
  • inveighing against,
  • de claimed,
  • charges with,
  • de-claim,
  • de-claiming,
  • de claims,
  • de-claimed,
  • de-claims,
  • ex-posed,
  • ex-pose,
  • ex pose,
  • inveighed against,
  • inveighs against,
  • charging with,
  • ex-posing,
  • de claim,
  • ex posed.
  •disapprove (verb)
  • defile,
  • discredit,
  • deride,
  • criticize,
  • scorn,
  • renounce.
  •dress down (verb)
  • tears into,
  • tare in to,
  • tearing into,
  • tear in to,
  • tore in to,
  • torn in to,
  • tears in to,
  • tare into,
  • torn into,
  • tearing in to,
  • tore into.
  •fulminate (verb)
  • pro tested,
  • pro-testing,
  • pro testing,
  • pro-tested.
  •inveigh (verb)
  • hast at,
  • ex-postulating,
  • recriminates,
  • rips into,
  • works over,
  • ex-postulates,
  • ex postulated,
  • has at,
  • re criminate,
  • ex postulate,
  • re-criminating,
  • re criminates,
  • recriminated,
  • hadst at,
  • ripped in to,
  • hath at,
  • ripping into,
  • rips in to,
  • ex-postulate,
  • sounded off,
  • went after,
  • ex-postulated,
  • having at,
  • cracks down on,
  • re criminated,
  • ex postulating,
  • sounding off,
  • sounds off,
  • re-criminate,
  • wrought over,
  • cracked down on,
  • re criminating,
  • rip in to,
  • ex-cept,
  • haddest at,
  • re-criminated,
  • ripped into,
  • re-criminates,
  • ex cept,
  • ex postulates,
  • ripping in to.
  •lambaste (verb)
  • lashed in to,
  • lash in to,
  • lashes in to,
  • lashes into,
  • lashing into,
  • lashing in to,
  • lashed into.
  •lash (verb)
  • be labors,
  • be-labors,
  • be labor,
  • be-labor,
  • be-laboring,
  • be-labored,
  • be laboring,
  • be labored.
  •nag (verb)
  • taking out on,
  • wrought on,
  • takes it out on,
  • took it out on,
  • works on,
  • took out on,
  • taking it out on,
  • takes out on.
  •rail (verb)
  • objurates,
  • objurated,
  • objurating.
  •rebuke (verb)
  • carping on,
  • jumps on,
  • carps on,
  • jumping on,
  • carped on.
  •reprimand (verb)
  • gives dickens,
  • lighting into,
  • giving the dickens,
  • lights into,
  • lighted into,
  • lighting in to,
  • light in to,
  • give dickens,
  • lights in to,
  • gave dickens,
  • giving dickens,
  • gives the dickens,
  • gave the dickens,
  • lit into,
  • lit in to,
  • lighted in to.
  •reproach (verb)
  • calling to task,
  • calls to task,
  • dis credits,
  • gave the devil,
  • gave devil,
  • dis credited,
  • dis credit,
  • dis-crediting,
  • dis-credits,
  • called to task,
  • gives comeuppance,
  • giving comeuppance,
  • giving devil,
  • gave comeuppance,
  • calls task,
  • give devil,
  • gives the devil,
  • call task,
  • called task,
  • dis crediting,
  • dis-credited,
  • calling task,
  • dis-credit,
  • gives devil,
  • giving the devil.
  •reprove (verb)
  • re-prove,
  • re proving,
  • re prove,
  • re-proved,
  • re-proving,
  • re-proves,
  • re proves,
  • re proved.
  •ride (verb)
  • over ridden,
  • is autocratic,
  • art autocratic,
  • being autocratic,
  • are autocratic,
  • was autocratic,
  • art arbitrary,
  • over-rides,
  • over-riding,
  • were autocratic,
  • being arbitrary,
  • over-ridden,
  • over riding,
  • wast autocratic,
  • over-rode,
  • wert autocratic,
  • am autocratic,
  • are arbitrary,
  • over ride,
  • wast arbitrary,
  • was arbitrary,
  • over rides,
  • wert arbitrary,
  • is arbitrary,
  • am arbitrary,
  • over rode,
  • were arbitrary.
  •scold (verb)
  • give talking to,
  • give talking-to,
  • gave talking to,
  • lays down law,
  • gives talking-to,
  • giving a talkingto,
  • gave a talking-to,
  • lay down law,
  • gave a talking to,
  • gives talkingto,
  • keeping aft,
  • pre-ached,
  • kept aft,
  • laid down the law,
  • giving talkingto,
  • gave a talkingto,
  • give a talkingto,
  • keeps aft,
  • laid down law,
  • gives a talking-to,
  • gives a talking to,
  • gave talking-to,
  • giving a talking-to,
  • gives talking to,
  • pre aching,
  • gives a talkingto,
  • laying down the law,
  • give talkingto,
  • giving a talking to,
  • pre-aching,
  • laying down law,
  • giving talking-to,
  • giving talking to,
  • pre ached,
  • gave talkingto.
  •taunt (verb)
  • de-ride,
  • de-riding,
  • swipes at,
  • swiping at,
  • out rages,
  • de riding,
  • out-rages,
  • out-raged,
  • scoffing at,
  • out-rage,
  • de ride,
  • out raged,
  • out-raging,
  • swiped at,
  • scoffs at,
  • de-rides,
  • de rides.
  •tell off (verb)
  • gives tongue-lashing,
  • gave tongue lashing,
  • give tonguelashing,
  • gave tonguelashing,
  • gives tonguelashing,
  • giving tongue-lashing,
  • gives tongue lashing,
  • gave tongue-lashing,
  • giving tonguelashing,
  • give tongue lashing,
  • giving tongue lashing.
  •vituperate (verb)
  • barking at,
  • yelled at,
  • barks at,
  • barked at,
  • yells at,
  • yelling at.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rap.
  •
  • dress.
  •
  • call.
  •bawl out
  • have words.
  •berate
  • objurgate,
  • jump over,
  • give hell,
  • blistered,
  • tongue lash,
  • jumped over.
  •blame
  • skin,
  • lay at door,
  • held responsible,
  • stick to,
  • lower boom,
  • Saddling,
  • saddled,
  • stuck to,
  • framing,
  • climb over,
  • sticks to,
  • jump down throat.
  •condemn
  • send up the river,
  • proscribe,
  • sentences,
  • found guilty,
  • finds guilty,
  • finding guilty,
  • pin it on,
  • sent up,
  • blow whistle on,
  • hang something on,
  • sends up,
  • sending up the river,
  • Reprobated,
  • let have it,
  • send up,
  • pass sentence on,
  • point finger at,
  • Dooming,
  • find guilty,
  • thumbs down on,
  • reprobates,
  • Reprobating.
  •dress down
  • carpeted,
  • rake over coals,
  • carpeting,
  • tear into.
  •inveigh
  • had at,
  • going after,
  • work over,
  • go after,
  • have at,
  • cracking down on,
  • rip into,
  • goes after,
  • worked over,
  • crack down on,
  • sound off,
  • recriminate,
  • recriminating.
  •rail
  • Railed,
  • objurate.
  •tell off
  • give tongue-lashing.
  •vituperate
  • yell at.
  •Other relevant words:
  • bear a grudge,
  • accusation,
  • tease,
  • ignominy,
  • blow up,
  • remonstrate with,
  • harry,
  • responsibility,
  • deplore,
  • cajole,
  • nag at,
  • carp,
  • care,
  • reprovingly,
  • give a dressing-down,
  • straighten out,
  • penalty,
  • blameful,
  • Vilipend,
  • Henpeck,
  • irk,
  • mind,
  • bother,
  • libel,
  • badger,
  • become abusive,
  • pounce on,
  • perfect,
  • disfavor,
  • anathematize,
  • condemnation,
  • blameless,
  • slander,
  • chiding,
  • accountability,
  • vex,
  • depreciate,
  • pity,
  • carping,
  • rake over the coals,
  • advice,
  • bark at,
  • banter,
  • bully,
  • disgrace,
  • strict,
  • light,
  • censorial,
  • execrate,
  • lace,
  • traduce,
  • needle,
  • fall upon,
  • modesty,
  • correction,
  • fall on,
  • rating,
  • grumble,
  • accusatory,
  • satirical,
  • rigid,
  • gibe,
  • devaluate,
  • chevy,
  • contumely,
  • chaff,
  • tongue,
  • curse,
  • warning,
  • bespatter,
  • rigorous,
  • punishment,
  • provoke,
  • dislike,
  • malign,
  • condemnatory,
  • austere,
  • animadvert on,
  • faultless,
  • devalue,
  • judgmental,
  • pester,
  • irritate,
  • admonition,
  • hector,
  • chivvy,
  • pull leg,
  • accuse,
  • Rebuking,
  • ridicule,
  • call names,
  • rave against,
  • reproachfully,
  • sail into,
  • pick at,
  • carpet,
  • bring to task,
  • rail against,
  • torment,
  • inculpate,
  • kid,
  • jeer,
  • hammer,
  • acrimonious,
  • assault,
  • attaint,
  • slate,
  • chivy,
  • Avile,
  • shame,
  • plague,
  • worry,
  • wig,
  • annoy,
  • tweak,
  • denunciatory,
  • humiliation,
  • let someone have it,
  • censorious,
  • twit,
  • harsh,
  • chagrin,
  • irreproachable,
  • haul over the coals,
  • damn,
  • reproving,
  • duty,
  • diminish,
  • harass,
  • call to account,
  • lace into,
  • severe,
  • bring to book,
  • clapperclaw,
  • pounce upon,
  • nettle,
  • ream,
  • mock,
  • set straight,
  • set down,
  • assail,
  • rave at,
  • admonishment,
  • jibe,
  • clobber,
  • make fun of,
  • scolding,
  • give the business,
  • rant at,
  • skin alive,
  • abusive,
  • involve,
  • task,
  • belabour,
  • goad,
  • reproachful,
  • lambast,
  • get it in the neck,
  • vociferate,
  • Blamer,
  • thunder against,
  • chew out,
  • bawl,
  • be abusive.

Antonyms for Upbraid:

• v.

  • Other antonyms:
    impel, instigate, endorse, sanction, encourage, applaud, approve, cheer, extol, laud, urge on, praise, abet, countenance, incite.