Definitions for chides

chides chide

Spelling: [chahyd]
IPA: /tʃaɪd/

Chides is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in chides (cdehis).

Definitions for chides

verb (used with object)

  1. to express disapproval of; scold; reproach:
  2. to harass, nag, impel, or the like by chiding:

verb (used without object)

  1. to scold or reproach; find fault.

Origin of chides

before 1000; Middle English chiden, Old English cīdan

Examples for chides

Even McBrayer sent him a letter to chide him about the resemblance.

This is one of my foibles: and it is something for you to chide me for.

I hardly know whether most to laugh at your freak or to chide you for its folly.'

Do not chide me: pardon me, pardon me, as you have done a thousand times; pardon and pity me.

Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep.

Though I was a few minutes late for dinner, Miss Herbert did not chide me for delay.

He could not chide her for it, nor arraign her with one bitter thought.

The bipartisan panel will chide and scold the naughty bankers.

Then at last they slowly returned, unrebuked, for no man had the heart to chide their daring.

I almost went up to chide him, but who was I to do that, when I had done the same at other times?

Word Value for chides
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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