chastening 的定义
- to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- to restrain; subdue: Age has chastened his violent temper.
- to make chaste in style.
chastening 近义词
correct, humiliate
chastening 的近义词 35 个
- penalize
- abase
- admonish
- afflict
- berate
- castigate
- chastise
- chide
- cow
- curb
- discipline
- humble
- objurgate
- punish
- rebuke
- reprehend
- repress
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- restrain
- scold
- scourge
- soften
- subdue
- tame
- try
- upbraid
- call down
- exprobate
- fulminate against
- have on the carpet
- rake over the coals
- take to task
- tongue-lash
chastening 的反义词 25 个
更多chastening例句
- In this healthy chastening, in fact, lie the seeds of any political recovery Obama might make in time for 2012.
- How chastening it is for America—and how disconcerting—to be cut down to size, yet again, by the Chinese.
- Not a gooey emotional crescendo, but a rather chastening lesson on engaging with life.
- Then, too, opposition tends to focus the marginalized mind, undistracted as it is by the chastening realities of power.
- Perhaps, without these preliminary and chastening trials, I might have met death in an unworthy manner.
- Instead, he seems to be remembered with tolerance by even those whom he visited with a chastening pen.
- I should rejoice to see her passing through a discipline so chastening and exalting.
- He had had no experience of the chastening rod, and could not conceive that anything of the sort was needed for Amanda.
- Whatever vices I have seem to be exaggerated by my malaise—such "chastening" not answering the purpose of purification in my case.