Past tense and past participle of 'chide'; scolded or criticized someone in a disapproving way.
From Old English 'cīdan' (to quarrel), 'chided' is the modern regularized past tense and participle form. The regularity of this form (simply adding '-ed') shows how English gradually standardized its irregular verbs over centuries.
We're witnessing language change in real-time: older speakers might say 'the child was chidden,' but most modern English speakers say 'was chided,' and in 200 years, 'chidden' will probably exist only in historical texts—language is constantly voting out old forms.
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