All 4 Uses
castigate
in
The Book Thief
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- ... serves to castigate, berate, or plain humiliate a female.
p. 32.8 *castigate = criticize severely
- Mama castigated.†
p. 91.9castigated = criticized severely
- Mama castigated her for hogging the paint.†
p. 257.3
- The young man, Rolf Schultz, kept to himself in the corner, speaking silently at the air around him, castigating it.†
p. 374.2castigating = criticizing severely
Definitions:
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(1)
(castigate) to criticize severely
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)