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• v  censure severely or angrily

• call on the carpet
• take to task
• rebuke
• rag
• trounce
• reproof
• lecture
• reprimand
• jaw
• dress down
• call down
• scold
• chide
• berate
• bawl out
• remonstrate
• chew out
• have words
• lambaste
• lambast

News & Articles

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• Where Have You Gone, David Murphy? Those Texas Rangers Need an Outfielder
  COMMENTARY | Texas Rangers fans have seen this movie before. It happened last year with Michael Young, a player who statistically was a hole in the lineup but was allowed to chew up more than 600 plate appearances in the middle of the order while the Rangers collapsed down the stretch.
  July 5, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Sports