(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Example Sentences:
(1) When first chosen, it seemed the most notable thing about Welby was that he had been a successful businessman: a man who understood money and could chastise bankers in their own language.
(2) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
(3) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
(4) Equally, though, because patriotic pride was so intimately linked to economic success, the sudden downturn was felt, keenly, in terms of collective shame and chastisement – and a fear of a return to the "bad old days".
(5) Chinese state media has chastised Kerry for highlighting US concerns over China’s increasingly aggressive claims to disputed territory in the east and south China seas.
(6) Eventually Howard heard about this, and took to Twitter to chastise us for wasting our time .
(7) In 1989, Murdoch delivered the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival, chastising the British broadcasting establishment for making programmes he claimed were "no more than a reflection of the value of the narrow elite".
(8) Hanlin has refused to name the gunman out of deference to the victims and their families, and chastised the media for reporting his name, saying it “glorified” a murderer.
(9) In a speech seen as revenge for the so-called Plebgate scandal, she accused some officers of "contempt for the public", dismissed the idea that problems in the police were down to a "few bad apples", and announced the end of public funding for the federation; a move more symbolic than anything else, but indicative of the chastising message she wanted to send out.
(10) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
(11) Kenneth Clarke , the lord chancellor, once famously chastised his Labour predecessors for conducting prisons policy with a chequebook in one hand and the Daily Mail in the other.
(12) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(13) Actually, that’s just what he does, writing (apparently in retrospect from California) about three days in December 1949 when, having been chastised by his school “for not applying myself”, he plays truant over a long and memorable weekend in Manhattan.
(14) In the late 1960s and early 70s when Smith was a prominent and powerful figure in Rochdale it has been reported that some people in the town used to send their unruly children to Smith's home on Emma Street to be chastised.
(15) Obama is fine when speaking and when he smiles but in between he looks like a chastised child, while Romney keeps the message simple - he has prepared well I'm not surprised, Romney did well at this game in the Republican debates although he was a bit brittle at times.
(16) Pickles chastised the chairman of the EA, Lord Smith, saying he would not be wearing a "save Chris Smith" T-shirt if the peer decided to quit.
(17) He admitted he had failed to "treat the police with the respect they deserve" while chastising the officers for making him use a side exit.
(18) Hillary Clinton spent Tuesday morning in Washington being chastised by an unexpectedly stern director of the FBI , but a few hours later she was flying free – cleared at least of the threat of criminal charges and heading to her first campaign rally alongside the commander-in-chief, with only political storms on the horizon.
(19) On the night, Sean Penn chastised him for his taunting of Jude Law; other targets included Nicole Kidman and then president George W Bush.
(20) TPP trade deal: Abbott chastises critics for 'short-term, xenophobic politics' Read more “I defend what we’re doing in the most aggressive way,” Robb said.
Thew
Definition:
(n.) Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.
(n.) Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using the photometric micromethod of Niesel and Thews the authors determined the oxygen fixation blood curves at 20 degrees C and at CO2 tension of 38 mm Hg in newborn piglests until 71 days post partum.
(2) It is also decisive for the extent of thew examination that it isrestricted to the search for such developmental disturbances as can be remedied effectively...
(3) Finally, the parameters used to describe the stopped flow results can also be used to simulate quantitatively O2 uptake time courses obtained from previous studies with thin films of red cells (Sinha, A. K. (1969) Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Francisco; Thews, G. (1959) Arch.
(4) 4 min: Some said the People's Team would play with five at the back, but they appear to have deployed an ambitious 4-3-3 formation and on thew few occassions that they've had the ball so far they have shown a commendable willingness to attack.
(5) An improved modification of the photometric micro-method according to Niesel and Thews is described, which employs the diffusion principle.
(6) From the measured values O2-saturation, standard-bicarbonate, buffer bases and base excess have been calculated by the Thews nomogram.
(7) He thew out an initial treatment employing flashbacks.
(8) The possibility of a low gastric pH and the resultant pulmonary damage if aspirated must be considered in the initial care of thew newborn with poor muscle tone or reflex activity as well as in the anesthetic management of neonates undergoing emergency surgery.
(9) From the measured values for arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide partial pressures, blood pH, and hemoglobin, values for oxygen saturation, standard bicarbonates, buffer abases, and base excess were calculated using the Thews nomogram.
(10) In the present investigation the effect of smoking on the airways was studied in a group of 25 persons aged 20-25 years by determining the closing volume and differences in ventilatory distribution (Thews method).
(11) Michelle Thew, at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, said: "The UK is one of the largest users of animals in experiments but legislation makes it one of the most secretive in Europe.