Translations for „chasten“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

chas·ten [tʃeɪstən] VB trans usu passive form to be chastened by sth

chasten

strezniti [or spametovati] se zaradi česa

chasten VB

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chasten trans

kaznovati

chasten (fig.)

ublažiti, očistiti

chasten

karati

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It was the fifth minute of the six added on to an already chastening 90 for the world champions.

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Some of them have been chastened, or at least been made more cautious, by their grand-strategic blunders of a few years ago.

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The combination of profound ambivalence and fierce conviction in their voices, as they opened themselves up, was chastening.

pitchfork.com

Teachers use such public practices to coerce other students to behave by humiliating, shaming or chastening badly behaved students.

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Perhaps that ultra-professionalism was chastened by his early success.

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The media should be chastened by their previous behavior -- they've been burned multiple times by amplifying the bountiful harvest of social media hoaxes.

www.weeklystandard.com

But when the moral faculty fails to chasten the technique, her poems tend toward convoluted syntax and a perverse ingenuity of image.

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It chastens and instructs us to reconnect to the primal.

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Six hundred million people watch the show, which terrifies and chastens the powerful and rich.

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Now, chastened by the university's admonition that it's improper and fearful of a threat to withhold diplomas, she'll keep her phone away.

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