To chastise – from the Latin for “to correct, set right; to purify” – is to severely criticize or reprimand. As I used it today: “I went back to the hotel, out of hope and empty-handed, and spent the next several hours chastising myself for letting our luggage out of my sight and especially for putting my laptop, and its backup, in the same bag.”
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