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castigate

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To criticize or reprimand severely.

The reviewer castigated the publisher for careless editing.

Dictionary practice example.

In a fictional museum, the director decided to castigate a guide who had knowingly invented histories for several objects and presented them as established facts.

From Criticism in the Public Eye.

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