Criticise: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

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A violent gust of wind.

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Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

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To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

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To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.

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To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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To beat severely.

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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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To throw; to pitch.

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A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…

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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

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To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; t…

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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

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Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

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To convince.

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To whisper.

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Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

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To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to sco…

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Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc.…

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One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc.…

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To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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