vituperate
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vituperate¹
- /vɪˈtjuːpəɹeɪt/ UK
- /vaɪ-/ UK
- /-ˈtʃuː-/ UK
- /vəˈt(j)upəˌɹeɪt/ US
- /vaɪ-/ US
Where it comes from
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Learned borrowing from Latin vituperātus (“censured; disparaged”), perfect passive participle of vituperō (“to blame, scold, tell off; to censure; to disparage, find fault with”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from vitium (“blemish, defect, flaw, imperfection; crime, misdeed, wrongdoing; fault, error, sin; vice; disease (of plants)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi-tyo- (“apart; wrong”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + parō (“to acquire, get, obtain, procure; to arrange, order; to contrive, design; to furnish, provide; to produce; to decide, resolve”) (from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to get, procure; to produce; to bring forward; to bring forth, carry forth; to go through”)).
verb vituperates · vituperating · vituperated
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To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.
They loue not porke, nor ſwynes fleſh, but doth vituperate and abhore it, yet for all this, they will eate Adders, which is a kind of Serpentes, as well as any other Chriſtyan man dwelling in Roome, and other highe countreys, for Adders fleſhe there, is called fyſhe of the mountayne, this notwithſta
Similar: berate, scold, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt, clobber, cannonade, slash, lash, blame
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To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify.
A bane to merit, he exerts himſelf to the deſtruction of every valuable virtue in literature, or in life: his pen is ne'er employed but in the abuſing and vituperating the innocent and meritorious; and like a voracious flie, he leaves and diſregards every accompliſhment, to fix upon the only ſore.
Similar: abuse, call names, vitriol, flame, name-call, revile, vituperate
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To use abusive or harsh words.
Now the Brito-Celtic Church as Mr. [Henry Charles] Coote calls it, the Church which Augustine vituperated, is a fact, but I should certainly like to have some proof of the existence of the other, the "Early English Church" which Augustine ignored. And I should further like to know why he vituperated
Similar: call names, flame, rail, abuse, name-call, revile, vitriol, vituperate
vituperate²
- /vɪˈtjuːpəɹət/ UK
- /vaɪ-/ UK
- /-ˈtʃuː-/ UK
- /-ɹeɪt/ UK
- /vəˈt(j)upəɹət/ US
- /vaɪ-/ US
- /-ˌɹeɪt/ US
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin vituperātus (“censured; disparaged”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
adjective more vituperate · most vituperate
- Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism. The glorification of women as mothers informed the propaganda of the Nazi years but social reality told a different story. In 1933, a vituperate campaign against 'double earners' forced married women, whose husbands were employed, out of the labour market.
- Which has been abusively or harshly criticized; also, deserving harsh criticism. These, and many more that might be adduced, are instances of the obscure though not absolutely impervious medium through which the present age views ancient history; and at the head of these illusions, is the great illusion of all, on wealth and poverty. Wealth was to be discreditable, unmanly, vitu
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verb to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner
| Español | vituperar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 痛罵 /痛骂 tòngmà |
| Français | vitupérer |
| Deutsch | ausschimpfen, beschimpfen, schelten, tadeln |
| Italiano | vituperàre |
| Română | vitupera |
| Русский | кори́ть korítʹ, критиковать kritikovatʹ, поносить ponositʹ |
verb to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify
| 中文 | 痛罵 /痛骂 tòngmà |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | schmähen, stänkern, verunglimpfen |
| Italiano | vituperàre |
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