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English
Etymology
From Middle English revilen, from re + Old French aviler (“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”), from a- (“to”) + vil (“vile, cheap”); see vile.
Pronunciation
Verb
revile (third-person singular simple present reviles, present participle reviling, simple past and past participle reviled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :And did not she herself revile me there?
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Translations
to attack with abusive language
- Bulgarian: ругая (bg) (rugaja), хокам (bg) (hokam)
- Catalan: insultar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 斥責／斥责 (zh) (chìzé), 辱罵／辱骂 (zh) (rǔmà), 謾罵／谩骂 (zh) (mànmà)
- Dutch: uitschelden (nl)
- French: insulter (fr)
- Galician: insultar (gl)
- German: schmähen (de), beschimpfen (de), verunglimpfen (de), stänkern gegen
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌳𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (idweitjan)
- Greek:
- Ancient: λοιδορέω (loidoréō), βλασφημέω (blasphēméō), κακορροθέω (kakorrhothéō)
- Hungarian: ócsárol (hu), szidalmaz (hu), becsmérel (hu), gyaláz (hu), sérteget (hu), pocskondiáz (hu)
- Ido: insultar (io)
- Irish: imdhearg
- Italian: insultare (it), vituperare (it)
- Maori: whakarihariha
- Polish: piętnować (pl) impf, napiętnować pf, lżyć (pl) impf, zelżyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: insultar (pt)
- Russian: поноси́ть (ru) impf (ponosítʹ) (not to confuse with a homonymous pf. verb)
- Sanskrit: पीयति (pīyati)
- Spanish: insultar (es), putear (es) (Am.)
- Swedish: smäda (sv), skymfa (sv), håna (sv), åkväda
- White Hmong: cem
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Noun
revile (uncountable)
- (obsolete) reproach; reviling
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.
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Further reading
- “revile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “revile”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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