Definition of "tongue-lash" []

• To scold, to chew out. (verb)

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• "I'm quite willing to tongue-lash the Missouri contingents in WDC to get cracking."
• "Who thinks she can tongue-lash me after I saved her from a man like Hugo Cistranos?"
• "In the synonymy of censure, then, punish implies “to penalize for disobedience to authority”; the verb discipline suggests “to subjugate or bring under control”; chasten means “to strengthen by setting straight”; chastise, “to inflict some coercion in correction”; correct, “to straighten for the purpose of reform”; and castigate, “to tongue-lash or rebuke severely.”"