3. (verb)call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast 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"
Definition of 'remonstrate'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)remonstrate to point out; to show clearly; to makeplain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate
2. (verb)remonstrate to present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation
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