regañar
Meanings
Verb
1. to scold, to tell off (transitive)
2. to gripe, complain, whine (intransitive)
3. to bare one's teeth (intransitive)
Examples42
Tom está regañando a Mary.
Tom is scolding Mary.
Él debe ser regañado.
He shall be scolded.
¿Hasta cuando debes seguir regañándonos?
Until when shall you tell us off?
Parece ser que lo regañaron muy mal.
It seems that he was badly scolded.
Vi cómo le regañaba su padre.
I saw him being scolded by his father.
Los niños han sido regañados por sus padres.
The children have been told off by their parents.