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re⋅buke

  [ri-byook] verb, -buked, -buk⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
–noun
2. sharp, stern disapproval; reproof; reprimand.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME rebuken (v.) < AF rebuker (OF rebuchier) to beat back, equiv. to re- re- + bucher to beat, strike < Gmc

Related forms:
re⋅buk⋅a⋅ble, adjective
re⋅buk⋅er, noun
re⋅buk⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. censure, upbraid, chide, admonish. See reproach. 2. reproach, remonstration, censure.
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re·buke   (rĭ-byōōk')   
tr.v.   re·buked, re·buk·ing, re·bukes
  1. To criticize or reprove sharply; reprimand. See Synonyms at admonish.
  2. To check or repress.
n.  A sharp reproof.

[Middle English rebuken, from Old North French rebuker : re-, back (from Latin; see re-) + *buker, to strike, chop wood (variant of Old French buschier, from busche, firewood, of Germanic origin).]
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Rebuke

Re*buke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rebuked; p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuking.] [OF. rebouquier to dull, blunt, F. reboucher; perhaps fr. pref. re- re- + bouche mouth, OF. also bouque, L. bucca cheek; if so, the original sense was, to stop the mouth of; hence, to stop, obstruct.] To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared. --Dryden.

Syn: To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove.

Rebuke

Re*buke"\, n. 1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.

For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. --Jer. xv. 15.

Why bear you these rebukes and answer not? --Shak.

2. Check; rebuff. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.

To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.
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Language Translation for : rebuke
Spanish: reprender,
German: rüffeln,
Japanese: 叱りつける
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rebuke  (v.)
c.1325, from Anglo-Fr. rebuker "to repel, beat back," O.Fr. rebuchier, from re- "back" + buschier "to strike, chop wood," from busche (Fr. bûche) "wood," from P.Gmc. *busk- (see bush). The noun is first attested c.1430.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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