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UK
/ɹˈɛmənstɹˌeɪt/
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VERB
- present and urge reasons in opposition
- argue in protest or opposition
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censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
How To Use remonstrate In A Sentence
- Into the gardens, down the long, shadowed walks; Amanda saw no reason to remonstrate. ON A WILD NIGHT
- `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
- If they do not remonstrate with the young couple for their sacrilegious behaviour, it may be because that they know that the church over which they have stewardship is an unconsecrated one.
- A lorry driver who got out of his cab to remonstrate with a motorist fled in terror when the man produced a gun, a court heard.
- Dehors had the imprudence to remonstrate with those about him, dissuading them from imbruing their hands in the blood of a wretched man, when their desire was so soon to be accomplished by the minister of the law. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
- But before he could turn to remonstrate she was volubly bidding him not to go off into a brown study over some plesiosaurus, and forget all about his charge, or make a mistake and introduce her to the dinotherium, instead of Professor Sara, a Princess
- I only holloed in _one_ ear, Tod," remonstrated Budge "an 'you ought to love dear Aunt Alice enough to have _that_ hurt a little rather than not wake up. Romance of California Life
- Sunday bedizened in Spanish finery, with such a blaze and rustle, that the good vicar had to remonstrate humbly with Mrs. Leigh on the disturbance which she caused to the eyes and thoughts of all his congregation. Westward Ho!
- He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy, only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs.
- Aruz (Rice): is dry, though Hakims remonstrate as to either it is prohibited or cold. Islamic Healing A-Z A's
