lambaste

lambaste (http://definr.com/lambaste)

     v 1: beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambast]
     2: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
        for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
        Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
        bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic [syn: rebuke, rag,
         trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, {dress
        down}, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate,
         chew out, chew up, have words, lambast]