Synonym: blame, chide, lecture, rebuke, reprimand, scold. Similar words: prove, reproof, proved, proven, reproach, approve, proverb, reprobate. Meaning: [rɪ'pruːv] 
v. take to task.
v. take to task. 
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1 Satan reproves sin.
2 "Flatterer," she said giving him a mock reproving look.
3 The teacher gently reproved the boys for not paying attention.
4 The teacher reproved him for his coming late again.
5 Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.
6 Employees were reproved for smoking in the building's restrooms.
7 The priest reproved people for not coming to church.
8 His tone was mildly reproving.
9 She threw him an angry and reproving look/glance.
10 Women were reproved if they did not wear hats in court.
11 Sometimes he reproved her weakly about the shirts.
12 The Beggar reproves him,[Sentencedict.com] then turns to practical advice.
13 Only if the dresses became too tight or too short would he make a gently reproving comment.
14 Approaching the car I was driving, he reproved me, saying that a padre ought to know better.
15 You will not want to reprove any children for talking during your speech.
16 Reprove your friend privately, commend him puBlicly.
17 I stand correct and reprove myself.
18 These teachers will not be angry, nor reprove student.
19 She again found herself unable to reprove him.
20 As many as I love I reprove and discipline; be zealous therefore and repent.
21 Do not add to His words,[www.Sentencedict.com] Lest reprove you and you be found a liar.
22 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
23 He will surely reprove you , if ye do secretly accept persons.
24 "There's no call for talk like that," Mrs Evans reproved him.
25 The school boy took it ill that the teacher reproved him for idleness.
26 And he suffered from moral gaucherie also: he disapproved, he reproved.
27 Did they imagine that on this day of all days the Speaker would reprove them?
28 A scientist who had the temerity to ask at Philadelphia for one was severely reproved.
29 How forcible are right words! but what doth your reprove?
30 How forceful are upright words! But what does this reproving from you reprove?
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