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Definition
to decrease confidence by making someone realize they have done poorly
or (archaically): to severely criticize or punish
or (archaically): to severely criticize or punish
- In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—"Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate."Chapter 7 (80% in)
There are no more uses of "chasten" in All Quiet on the Western Front.
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