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Antonyms for chide

Grammar : Verb
Spell : chahyd
Phonetic Transcription : tʃaɪd

Definition of chide

Origin :
  • late 12c., "scold, nag, rail," originally intransitive, from Old English cidan "to contend, quarrel, complain." Not found outside Old English (though Liberman says it is "probably related to OHG *kîdal 'wedge,'" with a sense evolution from "brandishing sticks" to "scold, reprove"). Past tense, past participle can be chided or chid or even (past participle) chidden (Shakespeare used it); present participle is chiding.
  • verb criticize, lecture
Example sentences :
  • This is one of my foibles: and it is something for you to chide me for.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Though I was a few minutes late for dinner, Miss Herbert did not chide me for delay.
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • I hardly know whether most to laugh at your freak or to chide you for its folly.'
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • Then at last they slowly returned, unrebuked, for no man had the heart to chide their daring.
  • Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
  • Do not chide me: pardon me, pardon me, as you have done a thousand times; pardon and pity me.
  • Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • He could not chide her for it, nor arraign her with one bitter thought.
  • Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden
  • Forgive me any thing I may have said, that seems to chide my father.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Nay, chide me not for my poor broken dream, for it was a dream alone.
  • Extract from : « In Convent Walls » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • I shall not chide you now that it turns your face to the fatherland.
  • Extract from : « The Hindered Hand » by Sutton E. Griggs
  • The lady did not chide me, and after this she seemed even in a softer mood.
  • Extract from : « Humorous Ghost Stories » by Dorothy Scarborough

Synonyms for chide

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