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Verb: chew out  chooawt
  1. Censure severely or angrily
    - call on the carpet [US], take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer]

Derived forms: chewed out, chewing out, chews out

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, knock, pick apart

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