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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Vintage Verbs: Perstringe
Part 2 of a 5-part series on forgotten verbs
Perstringe
means to put down or rebuke.
You might say, "Chad was fired after he perstringed his employer on Facebook."
The verb derives from the Latin word
perstringo
, to reprimand.
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