Definition of "revile"

revile

/ɹəˈvaɪl/

verb
third-person singular simple present reviles, present participle reviling, simple past and past participle reviled
1. (transitive, intransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
  Quotations
  who, when he was reviled, reviled not again
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Peter 2:23
  And did not she herself revile me there?
  c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv]
noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) reproach; reviling
  Quotations
  The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,