upbraid

UPBRA'ID, verb transitive 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance. Yet do not upbraid us with our distress. He upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark 16:14. [The use of to and of, after upbraid as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.] 2. To reproach; to chide. God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1:5. 3. To reprove with severity. Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matthew 11:20. 4. To bring reproach on. How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! 5. To treat with contempt. obsolete