take to task

Questions about take to task

What does take to task mean?

take to task means "censure severely or angrily".

What is another word for take to task?

Close synonyms include call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, lecture. 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 take to task a common word?

take to task 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.