BERATE

to scold or criticize harshly censure severely or angrily

SYN - bawl out, call down, chew out, chide, lambast, reprimand, scold, take to task

"to berate the little theif was one thing, to throw lawn darts at him was an entirely different ballgame."

"he had been berated so many times for not going to school that the blow of the words no longer effected him."

"He wanted to hurt him much more than any fist ever could he wanted to berate him and his actions publicly and watch him suffer humiliation."