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Word: Admonish
Speech Type: Verb
Middle English amonest ‘urge, exhort’, from Old French amonester, based on Latin admonere ‘urge by warning’. Later, the final -t of amonest was taken to indicate the past tense, and the present tense changed on the pattern of verbs such as abolish; the prefix became ad- in the 16th century by association with the Latin form
ədˈmɒnɪʃ
warn or reprimand someone firmly
Short Definition:reprimand firmly
Examples:- she admonished me for appearing at breakfast unshaven
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