Usually means: Severely reprimanding or criticizing someone.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word castigating:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. castigating: Merriam-Webster
  2. castigating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. castigating: Wordnik
  4. castigating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. castigating: Wiktionary
  6. Castigating, castigating: Dictionary.com
  7. castigating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Castigating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Castigating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Castigating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. castigating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. castigating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. castigating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. castigating: Vocabulary.com

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

(Note: See castigate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (castigate)

verb:  (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.
verb:  (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.
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