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castigate 音标拼音: [k'æstəg ,et] vt. 惩罚,苛评,修订 惩罚,苛评,修订 castigate v 1: censure severely; " She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [ synonym: { chastise}, { castigate}, { objurgate}, { chasten}, { correct}] 2: inflict severe punishment onCastigate \ Cas" ti* gate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Castigated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Castigating}.] [ L. castigatus, p. p. of castigare to correct, punish; castus pure, chaste agere to move, drive. See { Caste}, and cf. { Chasten}.] 1. To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To emend; to correct. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 53 Moby Thesaurus words for " castigate": assail, attack, baste, beat, belabor, berate, blister, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, carpet, chasten, chastise, chew out, correct, criticize, deal with, discipline, dress down, drub, excoriate, flay, fustigate, inflict upon, keelhaul, lash, masthead, penalize, pillory, pummel, punish, rail, rate, rebuke, reprimand, roast, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, settle with, skin alive, slash, square accounts, take to task, tell off, thrash, tick off, tongue- lash, trounce, upbraid, visit upon, wig
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