berate

Other forms of berate

past tense

berated·

present participle

berating·

third person

berates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about berate

What does berate mean?

berate means "censure severely or angrily".

How many syllables are in berate?

berate has 2 syllables: be-rate. The stress falls on "rate". In IPA it is /bɪˈɹeɪt/.

What is another word for berate?

Close synonyms include call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is berate a common word?

berate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with berate?

8 words rhyme with berate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.