English Dictionary

scold

IPA（発音記号）

/skəʊld/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 別表記 誤構文

(transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily. / (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression. / Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.

日本語の意味

怒って叱る（他者を厳しく非難する） / 鳥が攻撃的な鳴き声を上げる（人が叱る声に似た鳴き方をする）

Don't scold the child for asking questions; curiosity should be encouraged.

質問をする子どもを叱らないでください。好奇心は育てるべきです。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.

I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.

意味（2）

(ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.

意味（3）

Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.

[T]he merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

意味（4）

Misconstruction of scald

scolds （ present singular third-person ）

scolding （ participle present ）

scolded （ participle past ）

scolded （ past ）