castigate

1. (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.Examples: "Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault."Synonyms: chastise, punish, rebuke, reprimand, condemn, lambasteformaltransitive

2. (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.Examples: "God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner."; "The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin."; "But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment."formaltransitive

3. (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.Synonyms: correct, reviseraretransitive