21 Moby Thesaurus words for "dress down":
call down, come down on, flax, give a dressing-down, give it to,
hide, jump all over, jump on, larrup, lather, leather, lick,
paddle, speak to, talk to, tan, tell off, trim, wallop, welt,
whale
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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dress down verb
1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter
for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke,
rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw,
call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate,
chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
2: put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed
impression [syn: underdress] [ant: dress up]
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
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