upbraid

From Middle English upbreiden, from Old English ūpbreġdan, equivalent to up- +‎ braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌpˈbɹeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)

1. (transitive) To criticize severely.
   • Matthew 11:20,

     Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.

   • Sir Philip Sidney (Can we date this quote?),

     How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

2. (transitive, archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
   • Mark 16:14,

     And upbraided them with their unbelief.

   • Shakespeare

     Yet do not upbraid us our distress.

3. (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
   • Spenser

     There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.

4. (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
   • Francis Bacon

     Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.

5. (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
6. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.

• exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach

upbraid (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of reproaching; contumely.
   • Edmund Spenser (Can we date this quote?)

     foul upbraid