Definitions for chasten

chasten chas·ten

Spelling: [chey-suh n]
IPA: /ˈtʃeɪ sən/

Chasten is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in chasten (acehnst).

Definitions for chasten

verb (used with object)

  1. to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
  2. to restrain; subdue:
  3. to make chaste in style.

Origin of chasten

1520-30; chaste + -en1; replacing chaste (v.), Middle English chastien Old French chastier Latin castigāre; see Examples for chasten

He might help to chasten the sentences laughed at by those newspapers.

This business is going to chasten your soul, and make you mend your ways.

It should chasten other countries, which can only dream of such mobility.

Why was not this Thing ever present, to chasten and sober me?

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

To chasten this apparent chaos is a problem which man has set before him.

But Mrs. Anthony Robeson will have to chasten her ideas a trifle.

He does not chasten this class; in Hell they will receive their punishment, but it will be just.

With some it may seem severe that God should chasten and scourge His children.

She will chasten the exuberant ardour of the Provençal warrior.

Word Value for chasten
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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