Verb
1. call on the carpet
2. rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, have words, lambaste, lambast, knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
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