castigate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
censure severely
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- chastisement derivation
- chiding derivation
- castigation derivation
- chastening derivation
- corrective derivation
Sense 2 verb
inflict severe punishment on
Types & categories
- punish hypernym
Related & opposite
- chastisement derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | chastisement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | chiding |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | castigation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | chastening |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | corrective |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rebuke |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flame |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chastisement |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | punish |