Definition of "berates" [berates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of berate. (verb)

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• "Sontag berates herself in these years not only for her falseness and her moral cowardice, but for obtuseness, sexual inadequacies, compulsive seductiveness, failure to live as she believes she ought to be living, boasting, and failure to bathe with sufficient frequency."
• "As she silently berates herself, Eduard arrives on the scene and Oriol gleefully relays the story."
• "As an accomplished Yale Law professor who has fought hard to climb the indomitable Ivy League wall, she is not satisfied until she berates and badgers her children to achieve what she sees as perfection."