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What does upbraid mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) The act of reproaching; contumely.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To criticize severely.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
  3. (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
  4. (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
  6. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.
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