berate

berate is a 6-letter English word with 2 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
2. verb. censure severely or angrily

   "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"

   "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"

   Synonyms: chide, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce

Synonyms

chide, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in berate:

beater, betear, rebate, rebeat

Common word forms

berated, berates, berating

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for BERATE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.