VITUPERATE

vituperate. Vituperate, v.t. to blame, censure, dispraise, fault

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Vi‐tu″per‐ate (?; 277), v. t. [[L. vituperatus, p. p. of vituperare to blame, vituperate; vitium a fault + parare to prepare. See Vice a fault, and Pare, v. t.]] To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.