Synonym of bit someone's head off

Verb

Past tense for to severely berate someone
snapped someone's head off lambasted put down criticized censured abused blasted berated castigated chastised rebuked reprimanded reprobated slated admonished denounced bollocked reviled chided vituperated chid hammered vilified reproached pummelled reprehended reproved had a go at laid into chewed out tore into gave someone a roasting read the riot act objurgated blamed gave a rocket reamed out bawled out let someone have it found fault with put on the mat took to task disparaged carpeted rapped over the knuckles gave someone a rollicking tore off a strip cut up jumped on gave someone a bollocking gave someone hell hauled over the coals remonstrated with criticised dressed down gave someone a row disciplined gave someone some stick preached gave someone a mouthful yelled at lit into scolded gave someone a rating keelhauled ragged went on at pitched into tongue-lashed gave someone a caning reamed gave someone a dressing-down railed at raked over the coals gave someone a wigging ranted at wigged rapped laid down the law aspersed had someone on the carpet upbraided gave the business railed against chastened brought to book gave someone an earful rowed sent someone away with a flea in their ear blew up nagged pulled up took to the woodshed cavilled laced into railed cautioned slapped down gave a talking-to came down on kept after flayed basted told off recriminated jawed trimmed ticked off jumped down someone's throat threaped expostulated caviled called down gave someone what for praught rated taunted scored lectured slapped someone's wrist gave someone a telling-off condemned impugned denigrated assailed bashed flamed caned blistered panned savaged refuted slammed knocked potshotted rubbished rollicked sledged maligned pilloried pummeled slashed roasted derogated belabored dissed crucified took on deprecated went for the jugular belaboured sailed into disagreed with gave someone a bad press scathed started on tore a strip off pulled apart piled in vituperated against jumped down one's throat assaulted verbally jumped on one's case excoriated picked to pieces started in fustigated argued with fulminated against slagged off trashed lashed out took to pieces picked holes in shot down harangued attacked bagged taken on torn into given someone hell taken to pieces taken to task bitten someone's head off gone for the jugular given a rocket given someone a bad press given someone a bollocking given someone a roasting given someone a rollicking torn off a strip torn a strip off scorched lashed cast aspersions on hit out at hit put someone on the hot seat put someone on the griddle slapped scourged lashed into ripped into arraigned besmirched slurred mauled skewered disapproved of bad-mouthed cavilled at carped at run down inveighed against nitpicked about poured scorn on pulled to pieces bagged on drubbed cut scarified cut down beat up on come down on cut to bits crawled all over pinned your ears back lampooned injured ridiculed ran down satirized threw brickbats at thrown brickbats at exprobated fulminated gave flak to given flak to faulted derided cudgeled struck shellacked smothered punished smeared cudgelled called over the coals animadverted on gave a bad press to given a bad press to satirised gave some stick to given some stick to lacerated scratched lanced incised carped hat hitten slagged dispraised ripped decried clobbered denunciated tied into inveighed slugged fluffed skinned slogged zapped given someone a dressing-down complained about found fault picked at chewed had your knife in slanged cussed out passed strictures upon passed judgment shouted at criticized hatefully jumped all over nagged at burnt someone's ears burned someone's ears skinned alive stricken nit-picked taken down took down given bad press threw shade gave bad press done a number on given the business did a number on thrown shade chewn ate out given someone a caning blew up at gave one hell given someone a carpeting slang given someone a telling-off eaten out given someone an earful gave someone a carpeting given someone a wigging gone on at given someone what for given someone a row given a talking-to given someone some stick blown up at given someone a mouthful given one hell taken to the woodshed given someone a rating

Antonym of bit someone's head off

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