Definition of "chastise"
chastise
verb
third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised
(transitive) To punish, especially by corporal punishment.
Quotations
(transitive) To castigate; to scold or censure.
Quotations
She feels definitely that Lung Shing is her town, and is not hesitant to chastise people who she thinks are not behaving properly—such as, for example, a woman using loud, vulgar language on the street—although in so doing she may only turn the direction of abuse on herself.
1975, Cornelius Osgood, The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community, volume 2, page 485
Only last year Attorney General Edwin Meese chastised the Supreme Court for a series of decisions based on the legal doctrine of “indoctrination”—that is, that the 14th Amendment requires the states to respect the prohibitions on abuse of power that the Bill of Rights had originally applied to the federal government.
1987 September, Eric Foner, The Second American Revolution; republished as “The Second American Revolution”, in Bertell Ollman, Jonathan Birnbaum, editors, The United States Constitution: 200 Years of […] Socialist Criticism, 1990, page 202