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berating
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun berating has 1 sense
- berating(n = noun.communication) blowing up - a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him" is a kind of rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval
THESAURUS
berating
abuse, assailing, assault, attack, bitter words, blackening, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, onslaught, philippic, rating, revilement, screed, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation
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