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    CALL ON THE CARPET

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Censure severely or angrilyplay

    Example:

    The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

    Synonyms:

    trounce; take to task; scold; reprimand; remonstrate; rebuke; rag; lecture; lambaste; lambast; jaw; have words; dress down; chide; chew up; chew out; call on the carpet; call down; berate; bawl out

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "call on the carpet" is one way to...):

    criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call on the carpet"):

    castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)

    brush down; tell off (reprimand)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody

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