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verb
Mum took Anna away, scolding her for her bad behaviour:
rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambast, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure;
informal tell off, give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, let someone have it, send someone away with a flea in their ear, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up, pitch into, lay into, lace into, give someone a caning, put on the mat, slap down, blast, rag, keelhaul;
British, informal tick off, have a go at, carpet, monster, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, give someone some stick, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row;
North American, informal chew out, ream out, take to the woodshed;
British, vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking, tear someone a new arsehole, rip someone a new arsehole;
North American, vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass, tear someone a new asshole, rip someone a new asshole;
dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim;
rare reprehend, objurgate.
▷antonyms praise, compliment.
scold Oxford Dictionary of English