chastening in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for chastening in the English»Italian Dictionary

chastening [Brit ˈtʃeɪs(ə)nɪŋ, Am ˈtʃeɪsnɪŋ] ADJ

to have a chastening effect on sb

fare riflettere qn or fare mettere giudizio a qn

chasten [Brit ˈtʃeɪs(ə)n, Am ˈtʃeɪs(ə)n] VB trans

chasten

castigare

Translations for chastening in the Italian»English Dictionary

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castigare

to chasten

chastening in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for chastening in the English»Italian Dictionary

chasten [ˈtʃeɪ·sn] VB trans

1. chasten (admonish):

chasten

rimproverare

2. chasten (punish):

chasten

castigare

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

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

theconversation.com

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

pitchfork.com

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

www.independent.ie

My reply was straightforward: not only would it satisfy the democratic principles bound up with the public chastening of power.

theconversation.com

Overall, it has been a chastening experience for both companies.

www.fool.co.uk

It had been a chastening day, the brutality of prison conditions contrasting acutely with the overwhelming beauty of my surroundings.

www.telegraph.co.uk

It has been a chastening experience for the man who has out-performed him throughout their lives.

www.independent.co.uk

Other chastening feedback: people coming to live here had found the locals only superficially friendly.

www.stuff.co.nz

This would have been a chastening defeat too.

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In the face of another chastening defeat our lofty pretensions embarrass us all to the point of reappraisal.

www.independent.ie