It's the word of the day for October 6th.

Today's word is berate.

Today's word is berate, also pronounced berate, and spelled bea rate,

berate is a verb. To berate someone is to angrily scold or criticize them,

often loudly and at length.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Wired.

The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week,

have been torched, stomped on, and verbally berated in recent months.

People have berated things and each other for time immemorial, but the word berret has only been known to English users since the mid-1500s.

Before that, if you wanted to angrily rebuke, say, an outlaw for impersonating a fortune teller in order to steal the golden hubcaps off your

royal carriage, you would rate them.

Buret simply added the prefix B, B, B, E, to the existing verb rate, which is distinct from the rate that means to

value or esteem. While the more familiar rate comes ultimately from Latin, the origins of the less common scolding rate are obscure.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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