reprove
verb (used with object)
to criticize or correct, especially gently.
reproves
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present tense formof reprove (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“I could do without becoming known as the man who has a hugger for a son,” he reproves when Cal tries to embrace him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Jack’s shoulders are slumped forward, his arms crossed, while John’s maternal aunt Annie reproves him with an extended finger.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman."
From Time Magazine Archive
He reproves us for faults which would not be faults if he could talk to his neighbors in Vermont, to his fellow writers, his fellow men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Read in the Odysseia how Telemachos reproves and silences his mother.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
