WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tell off v 1: reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off" [syn: tell off, brush down]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "tell off": bawl out, berate, call down, chew out, come down on, denounce, dress down, give it to, jaw, jump all over, jump on, rail, revile, speak to, talk to, tongue-lash, trim, upbraid, vituperate