What does chewing out mean?

chewing out means "a severe scolding".

What is another word for chewing out?

Close synonyms include castigation, earful, bawling out, upbraiding, going-over. 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 chewing out a common word?

chewing out 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.

chewing out — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a severe scolding
Synonymscastigation earful bawling out upbraiding going-over dressing down
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