rebuke

1. 1.

   censure severely or angrily

   “The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”

   “The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”

   “The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”

   Synonymscall on the carpettake to taskragtrouncelecturereprimandjawdress downcall downscoldchideberatebawl outremonstrate

   Broaderknock

   Narrowerchastisetell off

Other forms of rebuke

plural

rebukes·

past tense

rebuked·

present participle

rebuking·

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 rebuke

What does rebuke mean?

rebuke means "an act or expression of criticism and censure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rebuke?

rebuke has 2 syllables: re-buke. The stress falls on "buke". In IPA it is /ɹiˈbjuk/.

What is another word for rebuke?

Close synonyms include reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand, call on the carpet. 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 rebuke a common word?

rebuke 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 rebuke?

1 word rhymes with rebuke. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.