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- pronunciation:
- rih
vaIl
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
reviles, reviling, reviled |
| definition: |
to speak about or speak to with hostile insults; disparage or abuse.
Several protesters reviled the politician as she addressed the crowd.- synonyms:
- abuse, deprecate, deride, disparage, mock, slur
- antonyms:
- laud, praise
- similar words:
- badmouth, belittle, berate, blackguard, calumniate, depreciate, excoriate, insult, malign, ridicule
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| related words: |
assail, blacken, denigrate, disdain, scold, traduce |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to utter insults and abuse.
- similar words:
- mock, scorn
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| related words: |
lash |
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| derivations: |
revilingly (adv.), revilement (n.), reviler (n.) |
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