chasten
/ˈtʃeɪ·sən/ v [T]Definition
› to make someone aware of failure or of having done something wrong: The Celtics, after giving up a lead in the fourth quarter and losing the game, were a pretty chastened bunch afterwards.
(Definition of chasten v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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