lambaste

verb

the manager fiercely lambasted his team:

criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn, take to task, harangue, attack, rail at, rant at, revile, fulminate against, haul/call over the coals;

upbraid, scold, reprimand, rebuke, chide, reprove, admonish, berate;

informal rap someone's knuckles, slap someone's wrist, lay into, pitch into, tear into, lace into, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, carpet, tell off, bawl out;

British, informal tick off, have a go at, slag off;

North American, informal chew out;

rare reprehend, excoriate, objurgate.