dress down
v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter
for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke,
rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw,
call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate,
chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
2: put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed
impression [syn: underdress] [ant: dress up]
WordNet (r) 2.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "dress down":
call down, come down on, flax, give a dressing-down, give it to,
hide, jump all over, jump on, larrup, lather, leather, lick,
paddle, speak to, talk to, tan, tell off, trim, wallop, welt,
whale
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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