Usually means: Reprimands or scolds someone mildly.
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  1. chides: Merriam-Webster
  2. chides: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chides: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chides, chides: Wordnik
  5. chides: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. chides: Wiktionary
  7. chides: Dictionary.com
  8. chides: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. chides: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chides: Legal 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.
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