Word Meanings - UPBRAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregedha to draw, brandish, braid, 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.

Additional info about word: UPBRAID

twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregedha to draw, brandish, braid, 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14. Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. Shak. 2. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20 How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! Sir P. Sidney. 3. To treat with contempt. Spenser. 4. To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person. Bacon. Syn. -- To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UPBRAID)

• Abuse
• Injure
• damage
• spoil
• maltreat
• treat-all
• ill-use
• ill-treat
• retile
• scandalize
• disparage
• reproach
• upbraid
• asperse
• malign
• slander
• vituperate
• prostitute
• defame
• pervert
• misuse
• misemploy
• vilify
• Censure
• Blame
• stricture
• reprobate
• inculpate
• reprove
• condemn
• reprehend
• chide
• berate
• scold
• disapproval
• remonstrance
• rebuke
• reprimand
• dispiaise
• Reproach Blame
• censure
• taunt
• Revile
• Reproach
• calumniate
• abuse
• blaspheme
• Taunt
• jeer
• scoff
• deride
• gibe
• sneer
• mock
• revile
• twit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UPBRAID)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend
• Sanction

Related words: (words related to UPBRAID)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• REVILEMENT
  The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• ILL-USED
  Misapplied; treated badly.
• REPREHENDER
  One who reprehends.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.