Chide

The rare verb 'to chide' may be found in many Early Modern English texts, such as the Authorised Version. It is not much used nowadays. It has been replaced by 'to rebuke', or, less formally, by 'to tell off'.

'To chide' is an irregular verb. Its forms are given here:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
chide	chid	chidden	Archaically the past tense was also sometimes 'chided'

This is one of the "the 250 or so irregular verbs" listed in Quirk 1985. The list "contains most of the irregular verbs in present-day English ... but is not meant to be exhaustive, particularly with regard to derivative verbs." AWE has copied most of the entries in that list. The verb 'to chide' belongs to Quirk's Class 4 A c.