revile

From Middle English revilen, from re + Old French aviler (“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”), from a- (“to”) + vil (“vile, cheap”); see vile.

• Rhymes: -aɪl

revile (third-person singular simple present reviles, present participle reviling, simple past and past participle reviled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, 1 Peter ii. 23

     who, when he was reviled, reviled not again

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     And did not she herself revile me there?

• calumniate
• reproach
• scold
• vilify
• vituperate

revile (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) reproach; reviling
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.

• revile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• revile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• eviler, levier, liever, relive, veiler