take to task

take to task
verb
censure severely or angrily
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The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car

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The deputy ragged the Prime Minister

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The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

• Syn:
• Derivationally related forms:
↑chiding (for: ↑chide), ↑scolder (for: ↑scold), ↑scolding (for: ↑scold), ↑reprimand (for: ↑reprimand), ↑lecture (for: ↑lecture), ↑reproof (for: ↑reproof), ↑rebuker (for: ↑rebuke), ↑rebuke (for: ↑rebuke)
• Hypernyms: ↑knock, ↑criticize, ↑criticise, ↑pick apart
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑have words)
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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑remonstrate)
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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑jaw)

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phrasal
1. obsolete : to undertake as one's special work : challenge to a feat : deal with
2. : to call to account for a shortcoming : reprove

is right in taking to task the historians for slighting this important development — C.V.Woodward

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take to task
To call to account, reprove
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Main Entry: ↑take
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take (someone) to task
To rebuke (someone)
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Main Entry: ↑task

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take (someone) to task
: to criticize (someone) harshly

The boss took me to task for wasting time.

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Main Entry: ↑task

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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