People and roles
Synonyms for chide
The synonym for chide recorded in this bank is reprimand, in the sense "to scold someone mildly for a fault". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for chide
- reprimandverb, in the sense "to scold someone mildly for a fault"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and chide carries one sense so far.
to scold someone mildly for a fault
Grandmothers often chide their grandchildren for tracking mud through the kitchen.
The true synonym
reprimand
Same sentence, swapped: Grandmothers often reprimand their grandchildren for tracking mud through the kitchen.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for chide in the sentence quoted.
- praise
- ignore
- excuse
Where chide turns up in the game
chide is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play chide
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so chide reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. chide carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.