berating

POS

Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

be=rat=ing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun berating has 1 sense

berating(n = noun.communication) blowing up - a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"

is a kind of rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval

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THESAURUS

berating

abuse, assailing, assault, attack, bitter words, blackening, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, onslaught, philippic, rating, revilement, screed, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation