To reprove; rebuke; reprimand; find fault with; blame; scold: as, to chide one for his faults; to chide one for his delay.To find fault about; blame; reproach: applied to things: as, to chide one's own folly.To strike by way of punishment or admonition.To drive or impel by chiding.Figuratively, to fret; chafe.Synonyms To blame, censure, reproach, upbraid, reprimand.To scold; find fault; contend in words of anger; wrangle; grumble; clamor.Figuratively, to make a clamorous or murmuring noise.To bay, as hounds in full cry.n. A reproof; a rebuke.n. A murmuring, complaining, or brawling sound.