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песочить — meaning in English

pesochit

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English meaning

  • harsh adj Unpleasantly rough, severe, or unforgiving — used for weather, conditions, sounds, or treatment.
  • scold verb To criticize someone sharply, usually for doing something wrong.

Senses

песочить is used for these senses in English:

  • harsh (ambitransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
  • have a go (intransitive, informal, idiomatic, UK, Australia) To tell off (especially unnecessarily or excessively), to criticise.
  • scold (ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.

harsh — full definition

  1. adj Unpleasantly rough, severe, or unforgiving — used for weather, conditions, sounds, or treatment.
  2. adj Overly critical or unkind in tone.

scold — full definition

  1. verb To criticize someone sharply, usually for doing something wrong.
  2. noun Old-fashioned: a person, especially a woman, who habitually nags or criticizes.

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