(chastises, chastising, chastised)
If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done. (FORMAL)
Thomas Rane chastised Peters for his cruelty...
The Securities Commission chastised the firm but imposed no fine...
I just don't want you to chastise yourself.
= reprimand
VERB: V n, V n, V pron-refl