Meaning & use

Beration

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The act of scolding or criticizing someone harshly and at length.

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His beration of the intern left the whole office uncomfortable.

After the beration, she quietly returned to her desk and said nothing more.

A note on using this word

"Beration" is the rarely used noun form of the more common verb "berate."

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scoldingtongue-lashing

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