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English
Etymology
From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
Pronunciation
Verb
upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)
- (transitive) To criticize severely.
- Synonyms: exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach; see also Thesaurus:criticize
a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:Dalio had no qualms about upbraiding a junior employee in front of me and dozens of his colleagues.
- (transitive, archaic, followed by with or for, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
- (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.
- (obsolete, followed by "to" before the object) To object or urge as a matter of reproach
- Synonym: cast up
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Envy”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.
- (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, archaic) To vomit; retch.
Translations
to charge with something wrong or disgraceful
Noun
upbraid (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
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