#scold

• Admonish — To reprimand severely, to scold, to chide; to address a formal warning or a serious observation to a person who has committed an infraction, a mistake, or broken a disciplinary rule. In a legal or administrative context, it represents the application of a minor moral sanction designed to prevent the recurrence of inappropriate behavior.
• Tongue-lashing — The popular action of cursing, scolding, or verbally abusing someone; a repeated curse, a severe tongue-lashing, or a harsh reprimand accompanied by heavy words. Unlike the scholarly term 'afurisanie', this carries a strictly daily, familial, and pragmatic tone, used to express profound dissatisfaction.
• Curse — To exclude a person from the Christian community through official anathema or excommunication, declaring them cursed; to curse, scold, harshly reprimand, or verbally abuse someone in everyday language. In the reflexive or passive form, it describes the act of becoming stubborn, malicious, or persistent in a mistake.
• To scold — An archaic regional variant or dialectal form for the verb 'a agresa' (to assault/provoke), traditionally used in isolated rural communities to describe the act of verbally assaulting, harshly scolding, or insulting someone with heavy words. It reflects a tense verbal interaction or a direct provocation.
• Scolding — The act of scolding and its result; scolding, harsh reprimand, insulting, or upsetting a person by addressing offensive or threatening words. It represents the verbal noun denoting the disturbance of someone's peace during a rural altercation.