MEANING
To criticize, rebuke, or find fault with conduct regarded as wrong.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- reprehend conduct
- reprehend a failure
On the page
The report reprehended the official’s conduct without addressing the policy that encouraged it.
She reprehended the needless cruelty more sharply than the original mistake.
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Word forms
- Base
- reprehend
- Past tense
- reprehended
- Past participle
- reprehended
- Present participle
- reprehending
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reprehend
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reprehending
- Present perfect
- have/has reprehended
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reprehending
- Past
- reprehended
- Past continuous
- was/were reprehending
- Past perfect
- had reprehended
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reprehending
- Future
- will reprehend
- Future continuous
- will be reprehending
- Future perfect
- will have reprehended
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reprehending
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: reprehend; reprehends; reprehended; reprehended; reprehending Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: reprehends.
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