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Noun: dressing down  dre-sing dawn
  1. A severe scolding
    - castigation, earful, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over

Derived forms: dressing downs

Type of: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval

Encyclopedia: Dressing down

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