Synonyms for Tell off:

• n.

  •
  • take/bring/hold someone to task
  ,
  • tear someone/something to pieces/shreds
  .
  • brush down
  • brush down
  .

• v.

  • admonish
  • Forewarn
  ,
  • advise
  ,
  • check
  ,
  • counsel
  ,
  • ding
  ,
  • draw the line
  ,
  • hoist
  ,
  • notice
  ,
  • rap
  .
  • bawl out
  • had words
  ,
  • haddest words
  ,
  • hadst words
  ,
  • has words
  ,
  • hast words
  ,
  • hath words
  ,
  • having words
  ,
  • rip in to
  ,
  • ripped in to
  ,
  • ripped into
  ,
  • ripping in to
  ,
  • ripping into
  ,
  • rips in to
  ,
  • rips into
  .
  • berate
  • blister
  ,
  • scorch
  .
  • censure
  • abuse
  ,
  • asperse
  ,
  • backbite
  ,
  • blame
  ,
  • cavil
  ,
  • contemn
  ,
  • cut up
  ,
  • denigrate
  ,
  • disapprove
  ,
  • disparage
  ,
  • impugn
  ,
  • judge
  ,
  • knock
  ,
  • ostracize
  .
  • chide
  • condemn
  ,
  • slap on the wrist
  ,
  • take down
  .
  • confront
  • accost
  ,
  • affront
  ,
  • beard
  ,
  • brave
  ,
  • call one's bluff
  ,
  • dare
  ,
  • defy
  ,
  • encounter
  ,
  • flout
  ,
  • front
  ,
  • meet
  ,
  • oppose
  ,
  • repel
  ,
  • resist
  ,
  • scorn
  ,
  • withstand
  .
  • lash
  • belabor
  ,
  • lambaste
  ,
  • ridicule
  ,
  • satirize
  .
  • lecture
  • gave going-over
  ,
  • gave goingover
  ,
  • give goingover
  ,
  • gives going-over
  ,
  • gives goingover
  ,
  • giving going-over
  ,
  • giving goingover
  ,
  • pre ached
  ,
  • pre aching
  ,
  • pre-ached
  ,
  • pre-aching
  ,
  • ranked on
  ,
  • ranking on
  ,
  • ranks on
  .
  • tell off
  • give tongue-lashing
  .

• Other synonyms:

•
• add
,
• bitch out
,
• bite back
,
• castigate
,
• come down on
,
• cuss out
,
• deprecate
,
• flay
,
• fulminate
,
• hector
,
• huff
,
• land on
,
• maul
,
• revile
,
• rip into
,
• vilify
,
• whale at
.
•
• attack
.
•
• crucify
,
• growl
,
• harangue
,
• ream
,
• tear into
,
• zing
.
•
• carpet
,
• hit out
,
• lash out
,
• pan
,
• roast
,
• slam
,
• snap
,
• take apart
,
• trash
.
•
• hammer
,
• slaughter
,
• snarl
,
• storm
.
•
• rave
.
•
• go for
.
•
• blast
.
•
• savage
.
•
• get off
.

• Other relevant words:

• Animadverted
,
• Animadverting
,
• Disciplining
,
• Experiencing
,
• Forewarned
,
• Gluing
,
• Lampooned
,
• Lectured
,
• Lessoned
,
• Lessoning
,
• Reprobated
,
• Reprobating
,
• admonish
,
• animadvert
,
• animadverts
,
• bawl out
,
• be confronted by
,
• beat off
,
• berate
,
• call down
,
• call on the carpet
,
• calling down
,
• carp at
,
• carp on
,
• censure
,
• chew out
,
• chide
,
• climb all over
,
• climb over
,
• come down hard on
,
• confront
,
• cope with
,
• coped with
,
• coping with
,
• deal with
,
• disciplined
,
• dress down
,
• exhort
,
• exprobate
,
• eyeball
,
• eyeballed
,
• eyeballing
,
• eyeballs
,
• face
,
• fending off
,
• find fault
,
• find fault with
,
• fly in face of
,
• get after
,
• give a going over
,
• give a hard time
,
• give a piece of one's mind
,
• give a talking to
,
• give a talking-to
,
• give going-over
,
• give piece of mind
,
• give piece of one's mind
,
• give the dickens
,
• glued
,
• go after
,
• grapple with
,
• incriminate
,
• jack up
,
• jawbone
,
• jawboned
,
• jawbones
,
• jawboning
,
• jump down one's throat
,
• jump down throat
,
• jump on
,
• jumped on
,
• keep aft
,
• keep arm's length
,
• keep at a distance
,
• keep at arm's length
,
• keep at bay
,
• keep distance
,
• kept at bay
,
• lampoon
,
• lash
,
• lash out at
,
• lay down the law
,
• lean on
,
• leaning on
,
• lecture
,
• lesson
,
• lessons
,
• light into
,
• look askance
,
• lower boom
,
• lower the boom
,
• make a stand
,
• monish
,
• moralize
,
• not hear of
,
• objurate
,
• pass up
,
• passed up
,
• pick apart
,
• pull apart
,
• pulls apart
,
• push back
,
• put in one's place
,
• put in place
,
• ran into
,
• rank on
,
• rap knuckles
,
• rap on knuckles
,
• read out
,
• reading out
,
• rebuff
,
• rebuke
,
• recriminate
,
• recriminating
,
• remonstrate
,
• reprimand
,
• run into
,
• running into
,
• runs into
,
• scold
,
• send away
,
• sending away
,
• sends away
,
• sent away
,
• sit on
,
• sitting on
,
• slap on wrist
,
• slap wrist
,
• sound off
,
• speak to
,
• speaking to
,
• spoke to
,
• square off
,
• squared off
,
• squaring off
,
• take bull by the horns
,
• take down a peg
,
• take the bull by the horns
,
• take to task
,
• talk to
,
• talking to
,
• tear apart
,
• tearing apart
,
• tell a thing or two
,
• tell off
,
• tick off
,
• ticked off
,
• tore apart
,
• torn apart
,
• turn down
,
• upbraid
,
• ward off
,
• Keelhaul
,
• baste
,
• blow up
,
• bring to book
,
• call to account
,
• chasten
,
• chastise
,
• chew
,
• correct
,
• criticize
,
• denounce
,
• discipline
,
• dress
,
• enumerate
,
• fulminate against
,
• give a dressing-down
,
• give it to
,
• give the business
,
• haul over the coals
,
• jaw
,
• lace into
,
• let have it
,
• mind
,
• penalize
,
• punish
,
• rake over the coals
,
• rate
,
• remonstrate with
,
• reprehend
,
• reprove
,
• sail into
,
• skin
,
• skin alive
,
• slate
,
• tell
,
• trim
,
• vituperate
,
• warn
,
• wig
.
• bawl out
• have words
.
• berate
• blistered
,
• eat out
,
• give hell
,
• give one hell
,
• give what for
,
• jump all over
,
• jump over
,
• jumped over
,
• rail at
,
• reproach
,
• reviled
,
• tongue lash
,
• tongue-lash
.
• chew out
• carpeted
,
• carpeting
,
• wigged
,
• wigging
,
• yell at
.
• confront
• Fronting
,
• come against
,
• come up against
,
• face down
,
• face up to
,
• face with
,
• faced up to
,
• go against
,
• go one on one
,
• go one-on-one
,
• go up against
,
• make my day
,
• meet eyeball-to-eyeball
,
• stand to
,
• stand up to
,
• standing to
,
• stood up to
.
• dress down
• Railed
,
• Reamed
,
• Reaming
,
• rail
,
• rake over coals
.
• Other relevant words (transitive noun):
• enjoin
.

What are the hypernyms for Tell off?

• Other hypernyms:

  berate, chastise, rebuke, reprimand, scold.