chastise
verb (used with object)
to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
were chastising
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past progressiveof chastise.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“Because they watch my Twitter and they watch my social media still to this day. So they were chastising her, I’m finding out, and she was finding a way to break the friendship off.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2017
Your note was so terse that guilt-prone recipients might have thought they had done something wrong, and that you were chastising them — and neither was true.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2011
Late last week White House officials were chastising Nussbaum for not pressing his would-be nominee hard enough for information.
From Time Magazine Archive
