chide

1. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.Examples: "Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow."; "Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!"; "I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking."transitive

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.Examples: "And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?"intransitiveobsolete

3. (ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.Examples: "Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?"; "[…] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours."ambitransitive