0 past simple and past participle of chasten --
1 to make someone understand that they have failed or done something wrong and make them want to improve: --
He was chastened by the defeat and determined to work harder.
I came away greatly chastened and far less critical.
I am suitably chastened and deeply apologetic for falling foul of the procedures.
As a consequence, the nuclear industry is now somewhat chastened.
They are in a chastened mood, and have entered into a sort of self-denying ordinance.
He disappeared, chastened, after my brief conversation with him.
People do not only get a free service, but apparently they have to be suitably chastened and grateful as well.
The idea that a young man leaves prison chastened and repentant is all too often a romantic myth.
The chastened tenor of his speech revealed him in an entirely new light.
