- Castigate - In pursuit? It’s in to dress down - Punish Severely - Rebuke - To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any
other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish,
as with stripes. - To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify;
to free from faults or excesses.
- Chastise - Find fault - Rebuke - Reprimand - Scold - To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault
with. - Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
- Castigate - Rebuke - Rebukes - Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or
public. - To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault;
to consure formally. - To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a
sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.