Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
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- adjective Made
chaste . - adjective Chastised.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chasten .
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Examples
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Wesa emerged chastened from the operation, U.S. officials said.
U.S. operations in Kandahar push out Taliban Joshua Partlow 2010
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Wesa emerged chastened from the operation, U.S. officials said.
U.S. operations in Kandahar push out Taliban Joshua Partlow 2010
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Keeping this new frontier chastened is a daunting task but the potential benefits make the effort essential.
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Still in chastened times Senior Officers have to be creative in gathering their evidence, after all large scale public disturbances don’t happen as reliably as they used to. on December 16, 2008 at 8: 40 pm | Reply Dipper
Kingsnorth Police Criticised Over Cost Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch has called the chastened former indiscretionary spenders "simplifiers".
Peggy Drexler: The End of Normal: The New Simplicity -- Real or Reaction? 2009
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Surely enough, the first thing I saw on arrival was a dank-looking man holding forth on Spiritualism, and enjoying what I should call a chastened vogue with most of the company gathered about him.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 Various 1898
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Mr. Powell insisted both were consensual but his campaign manager says that the experience "chastened" him and left him "determined to avoid poor judgment."
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Well stated, upper left, yet isn't it sad that we have to link "chastened" with "weakened".
McCain: Every "Sensible" Observer Favors Giving Escalation A Chance 2009
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Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer.
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Gros told him that it was like Rubens, with more correctness of form -- Rubens "chastened" was the word.
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