0 present participle of berate
1 to criticize or speak in an angry manner to someone:
As he left the meeting, he was berated by angry demonstrators.
Doctors are often berated for being poor communicators, particularly when they have to give patients bad news.
Any analytical methodology would thus have to consider the structural as well as the ideological makings of (con)text to avoid privileging the norm and berating the deviant.
Some press reports have referred to "berating", "bullying"and"hectoring".
Ten minutes later the mum arrives at school and starts berating the staff.
She is berating us for publicising something insufficiently 14 years ago, yet the interval until the change comes through is less than the interval associated with the clause.
Pantha was overtly hostile towards her teammates, often ridiculing and berating them.
Insulting or berating a partner may provoke retaliatory responses.
Bias' intellect prevents him from brutally punishing or berating his officers for their failures; he believes they should recognize and learn from their shame.
Supervising sisters were instructed to encourage the women into penance, rather than merely berating them and blocking their escape attempts.
