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REMONSTRATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Censure severely or angrily

Example:

The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

Synonyms:

bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; scold; take to task; trounce

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "remonstrate" is one way to...):

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remonstrate"):

castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)

brush down; tell off (reprimand)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Argue in protest or opposition

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "remonstrate" is one way to...):

object (express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Present and urge reasons in opposition

Synonyms:

point out; remonstrate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "remonstrate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remonstrate"):

represent (point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mr. Perry had been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that as he was coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Because you know, my darling,” I remonstrated, “you are not a child.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Already?" I remonstrated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have a faint impression that Mr. Spenlow remonstrated with me for riding in it; but I knew of none.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Oh, Trotwood!” she remonstrated, with a smile.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“My dear Jane,” remonstrated my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“My dearest,” I remonstrated, “don't talk preposterous nonsense! Who has made the least allusion to gold watches?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Oh, Davy!” remonstrated my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had it in my thoughts to remonstrate with him upon his desperate way of pursuing any fancy that he took—such as this buffeting of rough seas, and braving of hard weather, for example—when my mind glanced off to the immediate subject of our conversation again, and pursued that instead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)