Open main menu

Wiktionary β

rebuke

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin buska (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busc, *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- +‎ bush.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɹiˈbjuːk/, /ɹɪˈbjuːk/
  • Audio (US)
    		(file)

NounEdit

rebuke (plural rebukes)

  1. A harsh criticism.
    • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
      There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

SynonymsEdit

TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

rebuke (third-person singular simple present rebukes, present participle rebuking, simple past and past participle rebuked)

  1. To criticise harshly; to reprove.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

SynonymsEdit

TranslationsEdit

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=rebuke&oldid=46161334"