To criticize severely.
How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
To treat with contempt.
There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.
The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
He was ymet; who with uncomely Shame Gan him salute, and foul upbraid with faulty Blame.
From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break o...
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