castigate

Meaning

Verb

• To punish or reprimand someone severely.
• To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
• To revise or make corrections to a publication.

Related

Similar words

• chastise, punish, rebuke, reprimand
• condemn, lambaste
• correct, revise

Origin

• Early 17th cent., borrowed from Latin castīgātus, past participle of castīgō, from castus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- ("cut"). chastise, and chasten, taken through Old French. See also chaste.