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reprove en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To express disapproval.
2. (transitive) To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
   • Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:8:
3. (transitive) To deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).
   • She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip. 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856

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Deriveds

reproof · reprovement · reproveable · reproval · reprovable · unreproved

Synonyms

fulminate · excoriate · vilify · get at · bawl out · deprecate · lash · skewer · charge · reprove · slam · bash · give somebody a piece of one's mind · chide · denunciate · dress down · objurgate · chew out · blame · give somebody what-for · threap · castigate · tear into · berate · derogate · lecture · tilt · keelhaul · rebuke · tell off · criticize · upbraid · pooh-pooh · rubbish · inveigh · vituperate · tosh · berisp · tick off · blast · cannonade · put someone on blast · condemn · savage · get down · read somebody the riot act · reprehend · slash · admonish · lay into · slate · lambaste · rate · scorch · scold · get up · eat someone alive · denounce · dispraise · lace into · reprimand · light into · chastise · drag · animadvert · find fault · rip into · reproach · censure

Translations (29)

de mahnen (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · ro mustra (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · gd troid (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · it riprovare (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · ko 질책하다 (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · bg мъмря (to rebuke) · gd càin (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · ga spreag (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · it disapprovare (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · cs pokárat (to rebuke) · cs plísnit (to rebuke) · cs kárat (to rebuke) · ko 꾸짖다 (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · bg порицавам (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · de zurechtweisen (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · fi paheksua (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · fi nuhdella (to rebuke) · de tadeln (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · cs vyplísnit (to rebuke) · bg укорявам (to rebuke) · gd cronaich (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · de ermahnen (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · id mencela (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · fi torua (to rebuke) · fi moittia (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · ro certa (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · ga ceartaigh (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · de maßregeln (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) · de rügen (to convey one's disapproval of (something))

reprove en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹiːˈpɹuːv/ (UK)

Etymology

From re- + prove.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To prove again.
   • As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves. 2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:
   • Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper. 2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv:

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