Upbraid
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌʌpˈbɹeɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Origin
Old English upbreiden, from upp ("up") + bregdan ("to draw, twist, weave; the kindred"). Compare Icelandic bregða ("to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid"). See up, and braid transitive.
Full definition of upbraid
Noun
upbraid
(uncountable)- (obsolete) The act of reproaching; contumely.
- Edmund Spenser unknown date,Foul upbraid.
Verb
- (transitive) To criticize severely.
- Matthew 11:20,Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
- Philip Sidney unknown date,How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
- (transitive, archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
- Mark 16:14,And upbraided them with their unbelief.
- ShakespeareYet do not upbraid us our distress.
- (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
- (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
- (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.