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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

How are they different?

Chastise someone for something.
Yell at someone for something.
Scold someone for something.
How are they different?
  

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Apart from the obvious point that each begins with a different verb, I don't see any real difference.

— Fivejedjon

  • Apart from the obvious point that each begins with a different verb, I don't see any real difference.
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Apart from the obvious point that each begins with a different verb, I don't see any real difference.
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Here' are some broad comments.

Chastise someone for something. A formal word. Suggests you have authority of some kind.

Yell at someone for something. Shout, speak very loudly

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American Heritage Dictionary offers 'punish' as its first definition of chastise. That's the first thing I thought of when reading the original post. Yelling and scolding don't necessarily involve punishment.
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fivejedjondon't see any real difference.
Clive and Philip are right. I have no idea how I came to post that. My apologies.
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Today, my boss pulled me aside to chastise me for being "off task" because I was chatting with a ...

In this context, I don't think the boss really give him punishment? Or do you think the writer exaggerate the sentence?
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The boss is a person in authority, and because of this he is entitled to tell you what you should and should not do at work.

''Chastise' is such a formal and uncommon word that it sounds a bit silly here. Ordinary idiomatic English is
eg My boss told me off.

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