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- verb Past participle of
chide - adjective
chided ,reproved ,rebuked orscolded
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Examples
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As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.
To Build A Fire 2010
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As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.
To Build A Fire 2010
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As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.
To Build a Fire 2010
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Those, thus chidden, also contracted and helped spread the contagion.
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Those, thus chidden, also contracted and helped spread the contagion.
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Believing in such stuff was for chidden and gullible savages.
A Simple Misunderstanding Harris Tobias 2011
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And the Mormons revisit the teachings they held only 30 years ago about blacks being chidden of God?
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And the Mormons revisit the teachings they held only 30 years ago about blacks being chidden of God?
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Kolb went off, growling like a chidden dog, obedient but protesting; and David proposed to give his father indisputable proof of his discovery, while reserving his secret.
Eve and David 2007
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But Voltaire did not know how much a man is the product of a system operating on, and with, the individual predisposition, or he would not have chidden
Voltaire 2007
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