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revile

verb
/ɹəˈvaɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English revilen, from re + Old French aviler (“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”), from a- (“to”) + vil (“vile, cheap”); see vile.

  1. inherited from revilen

Definitions

  1. To attack (someone) with abusive language.

    • who, when he was reviled, reviled not again
    • And did not she herself revile me there?
    • He turned and quivered like a child, this worthless man that I reviled. And at his anguish, I just smiled a grin of mastery.

  2. reproach

    reproach; reviling

    • The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at revile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01revile02reproach03scorn04disdain05despised06hated07reviled

A definitional loop anchored at revile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at revile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA