chasten
chay suhn
- v censure severely
- v restrain
- v correct by punishment or discipline
- It's still unclear whether this verdict will do anything to actually chasten Sandia into changing its management culture.
- But the failures of leadership of the 1840s and 1850s should also chasten us.
- The threat seemed to chasten Bermuda officials, who quickly reported that there was no evidence Perot or anyone in his family had known about or authorized the "jackhammering" of .