castigate – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of castigate

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to castigate
Participle: castigated
Gerund: castigating

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of castigate

Indicative

Present

Icastigate
youcastigate
he;she;itcastigates
wecastigate
youcastigate
theycastigate

Perfect

Ihave castigated
youhave castigated
he;she;ithas castigated
wehave castigated
youhave castigated
theyhave castigated

Past

Icastigated
youcastigated
he;she;itcastigated
wecastigated
youcastigated
theycastigated

Pluperfect

Ihad castigated
youhad castigated
he;she;ithad castigated
wehad castigated
youhad castigated
theyhad castigated

Future

Iwill castigate
youwill castigate
he;she;itwill castigate
wewill castigate
youwill castigate
theywill castigate

Future Perfect

Iwill have castigated
youwill have castigated
he;she;itwill have castigated
wewill have castigated
youwill have castigated
theywill have castigated

Subjunctive

Present

Icastigate
youcastigate
he;she;itcastigate
wecastigate
youcastigate
theycastigate

Perfect

Ihave castigated
youhave castigated
he;she;ithave castigated
wehave castigated
youhave castigated
theyhave castigated

Imperfect

Icastigated
youcastigated
he;she;itcastigated
wecastigated
youcastigated
theycastigated

Pluperfect

Ihad castigated
youhad castigated
he;she;ithad castigated
wehad castigated
youhad castigated
theyhad castigated

Conditional

Present

Iwould castigate
youwould castigate
he;she;itwould castigate
wewould castigate
youwould castigate
theywould castigate

Perfect

Iwould have castigated
youwould have castigated
he;she;itwould have castigated
wewould have castigated
youwould have castigated
theywould have castigated

Imperative

youcastigate
weLet's castigate
youcastigate

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam castigating
youare castigating
he;she;itis castigating
weare castigating
youare castigating
theyare castigating

Perfect

Ihave been castigating
youhave been castigating
he;she;ithas been castigating
wehave been castigating
youhave been castigating
theyhave been castigating

Past

Iwas castigating
youwere castigating
he;she;itwas castigating
wewere castigating
youwere castigating
theywere castigating

Pluperfect

Ihad been castigating
youhad been castigating
he;she;ithad been castigating
wehad been castigating
youhad been castigating
theyhad been castigating

Future

Iwill be castigating
youwill be castigating
he;she;itwill be castigating
wewill be castigating
youwill be castigating
theywill be castigating

Future Perfect

Iwill have been castigating
youwill have been castigating
he;she;itwill have been castigating
wewill have been castigating
youwill have been castigating
theywill have been castigating

Conditional

Present

Iwould be castigating
youwould be castigating
he;she;itwould be castigating
wewould be castigating
youwould be castigating
theywould be castigating

Perfect

Iwould have been castigating
youwould have been castigating
he;she;itwould have been castigating
wewould have been castigating
youwould have been castigating
theywould have been castigating

Other

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely
criticize
rebuke
punish, reprimand, censure, chastise, scold

Antonyms

rebuke
praise, applaud, reward, eulogize

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1607, from L. castigatus pp. of castigare "to purify, chastise," from castus "pure" (see caste) + agere "to do." Sense of "make someone pure by correcting or reproving him."
"If thou didst put this soure cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 'twere well." [Shakespeare, "Timon" IV.iii (1607)]

2. First attested in the beginning of the 17ᵗʰ century; borrowed from Latin castīgātus, perfect passive participle of castīgō (“to reprove”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from castus (“pure, chaste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”). Doublet of chastise and chasten, taken through Old French. See also chaste.

Verbs referencing "castigate"

Dutch kastijden.

Sample Sentences

  • Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault. [1999, Robert P. Gordon, I & II Samuel: A Commentary, Zondervan, page 264:]
  • God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner. [1573, The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, Three Worthy Martyrs And Principall Teachers of this Churche of England, Iohn Daye, page 280:]
  • The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin. [1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 261:]
  • But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment. [2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, page 150:]
  • Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt. [2001, Klaus R. Scherer, Angela Schorr, Tom Johnstone, Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research, Oxford University Press, page 59:]
  • From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated. [2012, James King, Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, John Hunt Publishing, page 1:]