UPBRA'ID, v.t. 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.He upbraided them with their unbelief. Matt. 16.[The use of to and of, after upbraid, as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.]2. To reproach; to chide.God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1.3. To reprove with severity.Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matt. 11.4. To bring reproach on.How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!5. To treat with contempt. Obs.
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