Synonyms for scold

verb

scold is the common term meaning to find fault with or to rebuke in angry, irritated, often nagging language a mother scolds a naughty child; upbraid implies bitter reproach or censure and usually connotes justification for this she upbraided me for my carelessness; berate suggests continuous, heated, even violent reproach, often connoting excessive abuse the old shrew continued berating them; revile implies the use of highly abusive and contemptuous language and often connotes deliberate defamation or slander he reviled his opponent unmercifully; vituperate suggests even greater violence in the attack vituperating each other with foul epithets