revile

Speech parts

1. revile - Noun

2. revile - Verb

Meaning

To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.

Reproach; reviling.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vilify rail upbraid vituperate calumniate bash attack slam chastise abuse blast hate knock libel insult
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Antonyms

adore celebrate praise acclaim approve embrace
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Hypernyms

blackguard abuse shout clapperclaw

Derivatives

reviled reviling

Anagrams

levier relive liever reveil veiler

Examples

The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews Source: Internet

This was the beginning of a curse for astronomers, who would come to revile city lights for interfering with their telescopes. Source: Internet

The threat of the draft came with their eighteenth birthdays, and they had no hope of getting student deferments, like the upper-middle-class boys who would later revile them as killers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

reviewless Revigny-sur-Ornain revigorate revilement reviler reviling