Translations for „chasten“ in the English » German Dictionary

chas·ten [ˈtʃeɪsən] VB trans usu passive

to chasten sb esp God

jdn züchtigen

to chasten sb (moderate)

jdn mäßigen

to be chastened by sth

durch etw acc gemäßigt [o. gezügelt] werden

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English

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

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She showed her waspish tongue had not been chastened by the ugliness of being trapped in her car for two hours by demonstrators.

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A somewhat chastening loss in the first test in many respects decided the series.

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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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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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Surely the author behind this fiasco has been thoroughly chastened for his journalistic misconduct and breach of ethics.

wesleyanargus.com

Lessons in democratic governance indeed for his now chastened if not silenced critics?

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Yet the senator appeared not even remotely chastened by the result.

www.theage.com.au

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

pitchfork.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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