Attack and Chastise

Attack

Attack verb - To criticize harshly and usually publicly.

Usage example: the mayor and all his aides were attacked mercilessly in the press when the scandal erupted

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Chastise and attack are semantically related. in criticize topic. In some cases you can use "Chastise" instead a verb "Attack".

Chastise verb - To criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings.

Usage example: a cold, distant father who rarely paid attention to his children except to chastise them

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Attack and chastise are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attack" instead a verb "Chastise".

Nearby Words: chaste, chastity, chastisement, chastising, chastized

children	attack children	chastise children
family	attack family	chastise family
someone	attack someone	chastise someone
time	attack time	chastise time
Other words: anyone, player, everyone.

The Japanese dorama Otasuke Girl featured a schoolgirl character called Moroi Ayumi who used, in self defence and to chastise irritating boys, her signature attack, the "Gold Crush".

Source: Groin Attack / Live-Action TV
If you provoke a good-aligned NPC into becoming hostile (such as by botching a pickpocketing), your allies will immediately attack them, but your good allies will chastise you for this.

Source: Moral Myopia
Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave) in the British war film, The Dam Busters, is a Downplayed Mad Scientist who invents the bouncing bomb and perfects its design to enable an attack on major German dams as part of Operation Chastise.

Source: Mad Scientist

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