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lectures

verb , present tense third-person singular of lecture

Synonyms and Antonyms of lectures

1 to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service

Synonyms of lectures

bastes, bawls out, berates, calls down, castigates, chastises, chews out, dresses down, flays, hammers, jaws, keelhauls, lambastes (or lambasts), rags, rails (at or against), rants (at), rates, reams (out), rebukes, reprimands, reproaches, scolds, scores, tongue-lashes, upbraids

Words Related to lectures

admonishes, chides, remonstrates (with), reproves

abuses, assails, attacks, bad-mouths, blames, blasts, censures, condemns, criticizes, crucifies, denounces, disses [slang], excoriates, faults, harangues, knocks, laces (into), lashes, pans, reprehends, reviles, scourges, slams, vituperates

belittles, disparages, mocks, puts down

ridicules, scoffs, scorns

Phrases Synonymous with lectures

lays into, reads the riot act (to), takes to task

Near Antonyms of lectures

approves, endorses (also indorses), sanctions

extols (also extolls), lauds, praises

2 to give a formal often extended talk on a subject

a physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease

Synonyms of lectures

declaims, descants, discourses, expatiates, harangues, orates, speaks, talks

Words Related to lectures

recites, soliloquizes

disserts, expounds, pontificates, sermonizes

Phrases Synonymous with lectures

holds forth, takes the floor

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