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chastize

chastize \chas*tize"\ v. t. same as chastise; -- a variant spelling; as, She chastized him for his insensitive remarks.

Syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct.

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chastize

vb. (alternative form of chastise English)

Usage examples of "chastize".

I have been chastizing myself daily for not spending more time with you.

The severe punishments were perhaps a means of chastizing is affected landowners.

He indicated the bench and they sat side byside like two overgrown schoolboys about to be chastized.

She cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from scourges merciless, But she, inveterate of brain, discerns That Pity has as little place as Joy Among their roll of gifts.

Camo was chastized by Abuna for trying to coax the fire lizards to eat when he should have been delivering the cereal to the dining hall (for the fire lizards would not eat from his hands until Menolly arrived).

They had learned something of each other's history: on his part, that he was a rebellious orphan with an undistinguished past but great hope for the future, of small resource but large resoucefulness, short on tutoring but long on ambition, with a craving to Commence and make his mark on the campus, and eager to be married though with little experience of women -- he confessed to her solemnly his youthful connection with Old Black George's daughter, whereof he was so contrite that, going it may be beyond the facts, he declared he was no virgin, the more severely to chastize himself.