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reviled


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Revile  \Re*vile"\,  v.  t.  &  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Reviled};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Reviling}.]  [Pref.  re-  +  OF  aviler  to  make  vile, 
  depreciate,  F.  avilir  [`a]  (L.  ad.)  +  vil  vile.  See  {Vile}.] 
  To  address  or  abuse  with  opprobrious  and  contemptuous 
  language;  to  reproach.  ``And  did  not  she  herself  revile  me 
  there?''  --Shak. 
 
  Who  when  he  was  reviled,  reviled  not  again  --1  Pet. 
  ii  23. 
 
  Syn:  To  reproach;  vilify;  upbraid;  calumniate. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  reviled 
  adj  :  assailed  with  contemptuous  language  [syn:  {maligned}] 




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