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Meaning of Rebuke | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɹiˈbjuːk

Definitions

A harsh criticism.

Equivalents

العربية التّوبيخ
Български порицавам
Català reganyar renyar reprendre reprensió
Čeština důtka vyčítat výčitka výtka
Esperanto admoni riproĉi riproĉo skoldi
Gaeilge aifir aifirt spreag spreagadh
Gàidhlig achmhasan càin cronaich troid
עברית מנה
हिन्दी निंदा
Bahasa Indonesia bentur berbenturan menegur mengganjar
Íslenska átelja
ქართული საყვედური
Latina obiūrgō
မြန်မာဘာသာ ဆူ
Română certa mustră
Shqip llavënj
Kiswahili kukemea kulaumu
Türkçe azarlamak sitem

Examples

“There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.”
“U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.”
“With his emphasis on accepting the science (he was a trained chemist) – and hence his stern rebuke to the climate change deniers and the politicians who courted them – he even managed to reset the relationship between science and religion, which had been rocky ever since Galileo fell foul of the Inquisition 400 years earlier.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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