Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic US English) To lecture, scold, reprimand, or rebuke.
WordNet
v. 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" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
Usage examples of "chew out".
Hiska tended to issue sounds rather than words, though Caleb had heard the mechanic chew out a subordinate in a fashion that would have made a tough petty officer blush with envy.
They stopped and held Ilna's scarf to the wall until the wool had sucked up water for them to chew out of the fabric.
I've got a few things going, and I'd better go chew out that idiot apprentice who tried a quarter-charge of powder in a new rifle.
Jim said, striding landward on the wharf, raising his bullhorn to chew out some Landing residents who were adding household goods to the stack of red priority cargo.
But his cheek muscle didn't twitch the way it usually did when he was about to chew out an erring weyrling or rider.
Hiska tended to issue sounds rather than words, though caleb had heard the mechanic chew out a subordinate in a fashion that would have made a tough petty officer blush with envy.
But his cheek muscle didnt twitch the way it usually did when he was about to chew out an erring weyrling or rider.
All things considered, she decided not to give him the standard chew out on reprogramming a loaded weapon.
IVe got burrs in my coat and a snarl in my tail that's going to take me a week to chew out, and all this time you've had an armed escort within shouting distance.
Ive got burrs in my coat and a snarl in my tail that's going to take me a week to chew out, and all this time you've had an armed escort within shouting distance.
I've got burrs in my coat and a snarl in my tail that's going to take me a week to chew out, and all this time you've had an armed escort within shouting distance.