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: September 3, 2023
\up-BRAYD\ verb
What It Means
To upbraid someone is to speak to them in an angry or critical way in response to something they have done wrong—in other words, to scold them.
// The teacher upbraided the class after discovering the chalkboard erasers had been clapped all over the walls.
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