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(verb) call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, rag, rebuke, scold, dress down, take to task, trounce, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, berate, bawl out
censure severely or angrily
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car; The deputy ragged the Prime Minister; The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
(verb) rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away
talk incessantly and tiresomely
(verb) visit, gossip, natter, chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, shoot the breeze, confab, confabulate
talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
(verb) chew, manducate, masticate
chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
He jawed his bubble gum; Chew your food and don't swallow it!; The cows were masticating the grass