How to sign: censure severely or angrily
"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup";
Similiar / Same: rebuke, call on the carpet, reproof, chew up, chew out, bawl out, dress down, berate, scold, chide, lambast, lambaste, call down, reprimand, lecture, remonstrate, trounce, jaw, rag
Categories: criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart