Usually means: Criticize or scold someone severely.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. upbraid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upbraid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upbraid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upbraid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upbraid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Upbraid, upbraid: Wordnik
  7. upbraid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. upbraid: Wiktionary
  9. upbraid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. upbraid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. upbraid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. upbraid: Dictionary.com
  13. upbraid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Upbraid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. upbraid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. upbraid: Rhymezone
  17. Upbraid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. upbraid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. upbraid: Free Dictionary
  20. upbraid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. upbraid: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. upbraid: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. upbraid: A Word A Day
  2. upbraid: Idioms

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

(Note: See upbraided as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To criticize severely.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, followed by with or for, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
verb:  (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
verb:  (obsolete, followed by "to" before the object) To object or urge as a matter of reproach
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
verb:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, archaic) To vomit; retch.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.

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