upbraid

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To criticize severely.

   How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

2. 2
   verb

   To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach

   Yet do not upbraid us our distress.

3. 3
   verb

   To treat with contempt.

   There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.

4. 4
   verb

   To object or urge as a matter of reproach

   Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.

From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).

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