Tra từ chasten - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

chas‧ten/ˈtʃeɪsən/ verb [TRANSITIVE USUALLY PASSIVE] formal
[date : 1500-1600; Origin : chaste 'to chasten' (12-17 centuries), from Old French chastier, from Latin castigare; ⇨ castigate]
to make someone realize that their behaviour was wrong or mistaken:
　 ▪ Party workers have returned to their home towns, chastened by their overwhelming defeat.

—chastening adjective:
　 ▪ a chastening experience

verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Military leaders, chastened by Vietnam, have learned to be cautious.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even Commissioner Shack seemed chastened by the loss.
▪ His expression seems dour, chastened around the edges.
▪ Most of them turn up chastened the following morning.
▪ The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying.
▪ They were not to be chastened by homilies like children at a Sunday school.
▪ Too late to admit us, he stood, chastened, and confessed he'd been knocked out.