UPBRA'ID,
1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful to reproach to cast in the teeth followed by with or for, before the thing imputed as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.
Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.
He upbraided them with their unbelief. Matthew 16 .
The use of to and of, after upbraid, as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.
2. To reproach to chide.
God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1 .
3. To reprove with severity.
Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matthew 11 .
4. To bring reproach on.
How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
5. To treat with contempt. Obs.