Party workers have returned to their home towns, chastened by their overwhelming defeat.
党务工作者遭受惨败后打道回府。
nGrammar
Chasten is usually passive.
—chasteningadjectiveadj
a chastening experience
磨炼人的经历
Examples from the Corpus
chasten• Too late to admit us, he stood, chastened, and confessed he'd been knocked out.• His expression seems dour, chastened around the edges.• They were not to be chastened by homilies like children at a Sunday school.• Even CommissionerShack seemed chastened by the loss.• Militaryleaders, chastened by Vietnam, have learned to be cautious.• The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying.• Most of them turn up chastened the following morning.
Originchasten
(1500-1600)chaste“to chasten”((12-17 centuries)), from Old Frenchchastier, from Latincastigare; → CASTIGATE