To formally rebuke.
To criticize harshly.
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
To call a raise from the big blind.
To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).