rebuke

From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin *busca (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- +‎ bush.

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈbjuːk/, /ɹɪˈbjuːk/

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• Rhymes: -uːk

rebuke (plural rebukes)

1. (of a person) A harsh criticism.
   • 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Guardian Unlimited‎:

     There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

• reproach, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand, admonition

rebuke (third-person singular simple present rebukes, present participle rebuking, simple past and past participle rebuked)

1. (of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

   • 2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, 6:(please specify the verse(s)):

     O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

• reprimand, reproach, reprove, reprehend, admonish, criticise, berate, scold
• See also Thesaurus:criticize

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