0 present participle of chastise
1 to criticize someone severely:
Charity organizations have chastised the government for not doing enough to prevent the latest famine in Africa.
She has been chastised by critics who say that children will never learn to recognize and enjoy vegetables if they are disguised.
2 to punish someone, especially by hitting them:
The doctor was chastised by a patient for being overweight.
He publicly chastised Democrats who supported continued funding for the war.
She chastised herself for not getting up and being more active.
The overseers were big, brutal men who were not slow to chastise their workers and beat them if they fell behind with quotas.
The Spanish army of the eastern Pyrenees had been severely chastised by the soldiers of the republic.
They make excuses for continuing to sin and refuse to be chastised and corrected.
But this did not stop them from chastising the university.
She penned a scathing letter, chastising him for his lack of filial feeling.
