Usually means: Rebuke or scold someone mildly.
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  1. chide: Merriam-Webster
  2. chide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chide, chide: Wordnik
  7. chide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chide: Wiktionary
  9. chide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chide, chide: Dictionary.com
  13. chide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chide: Rhymezone
  18. chide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. CHiDE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. chide: FreeDictionary.org
  22. chide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. chide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chide: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chide: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHIDE: Acronym Finder
  2. chide: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CHIDE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chide: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chide)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

Similar:
berate, scold, lambaste, lambast, chew out, dress down, bawl out, chew up, remonstrate, have words, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, extol

Types:
scold, berate, reprimand, chastise, more...

Phrases:
to chide hither, opposite of chide, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     pewter,     gunmetal, more...


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Similar:
berate, scold, lambaste, lambast, chew out, dress down, bawl out, chew up, remonstrate, have words, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, extol

Types:
scold, berate, reprimand, chastise, more...

Phrases:
to chide hither, opposite of chide, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     pewter,     gunmetal, more...



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