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{"id": "upbraid", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "upbraid", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Old English upbr\u0113dan \u2018allege (something) as a basis for censure\u2019, based on braid in the obsolete sense \u2018brandish\u2019. The current sense dates from Middle English"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/upbraid_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u028cp\u02c8bre\u026ad"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["find fault with (someone); scold"], "examples": [{"text": "he was upbraided for his slovenly appearance"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1113400.005", "shortDefinitions": ["find fault with"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "reprimand"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rebuke"}, {"language": "en", "text": "reproach"}, {"language": "en", "text": "scold"}, {"language": "en", "text": "admonish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "reprove"}, {"language": "en", "text": "remonstrate with"}, {"language": "en", "text": "chastise"}, {"language": "en", "text": "chide"}, {"language": "en", "text": "berate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "take to task"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pull up"}, {"language": "en", "text": "castigate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lambast"}, {"language": "en", "text": "read someone the Riot Act"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give someone a piece of one's mind"}, {"language": "en", "text": "haul over the coals"}, {"language": "en", "text": "criticize"}, {"language": "en", "text": "censure"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "upbraid", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015737.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "upbraid"}], "type": "headword", "word": "upbraid"}], "word": "upbraid"}