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What does chide mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
  3. (transitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
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Come on, we chide, they can't have all the wealth, status and talent to boot.
The theater manager does not chide, warn or cajole us into good behavior.
They are simply not entitled to chide this Baltic country like a stupid schoolboy.
I almost went up to chide him, but who was I to do that, when I had done the same at other times?
I want to gently chide my colleague in the House today for specifically referring to that as genocide.
Then at last they slowly returned, unrebuked, for no man had the heart to chide their daring.

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