castigate

Other forms of castigate

past tense

castigated·

present participle

castigating·

third person

castigates·

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 castigate

What does castigate mean?

castigate means "censure severely". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in castigate?

castigate has 3 syllables: cas-ti-gate. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ˈkæstəˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for castigate?

Close synonyms include chastise, objurgate, chasten, correct. 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 castigate a common word?

castigate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 castigate?

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