censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; often with at; as, to scold at a servant
To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity
If you scold someone, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong. If he finds out, he'll scold me Later she scolded her daughter for having talked to her father like that `You should be at school,' he scolded. to angrily criticize someone, especially a child, about something they have done = tell off (Probably from a language)