Get acclaimed or admonished (7)
I believe the answer is:
berated
'admonished' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'get acclaimed' is the wordplay.
'get' becomes 'be' ('get' can mean 'come to be').
'acclaimed' becomes 'rated' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'be'+'rated'='BERATED'
'or' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for berated that I've seen before include "Scolded" , "Dressed down" .)