revile
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of revile
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive)To attack (someone) with abusive language.
“who, when he was reviled, reviled not again”
“And did not she herself revile me there?”
“He turned and quivered like a child, this worthless man that I reviled. And at his anguish, I just smiled a grin of mastery.”
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verb
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(ambitransitive)To attack (someone) with abusive language.
“who, when he was reviled, reviled not again”
“And did not she herself revile me there?”
“He turned and quivered like a child, this worthless man that I reviled. And at his anguish, I just smiled a grin of mastery.”
noun
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(obsolete, uncountable)reproach; reviling
“The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English revilen, from re + Old French aviler (“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”), from a- (“to”) + vil (“vile, cheap”); see vile.
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