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dress down

verb

1 dress down

Censure severely or angrily.

synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, have words, jaw, lambast ... show more.

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; ... show more

Dutch: schelden, op het matje roepen, berispen, aanrekenen, aantijgen, aanwrijven, imputeren, inwrijven, nadragen, verwijten

2 dress down

Dress informally and casually.

synonym: underdress.


Moby thesaurus: call down, come down on, flax, give a dressing-down, give it to, hide, jump all over, jump on, larrup, lather, leather, lick, paddle, speak to, talk to, tan, tell off, trim, wallop, welt ... show more.

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