expostulate
11expostulate — UK [ɪkˈspɒstʃʊleɪt] / US [ɪkˈspɑstʃəˌleɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms expostulate : present tense I/you/we/they expostulate he/she/it expostulates present participle expostulating past tense expostulated past participle expostulated very… …
12expostulate — verb To protest or remonstrate. The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely… …
13expostulate — See expostulate, postulate …
14expostulate — verb (I) formal to express strong disapproval, disagreement, or annoyance: expostulate (that): “But that s the equivalent of saying that you drank beer but didn t swallow it,” expostulated one reporter. expostulation, noun (C, U) …
15expostulate — /əkˈspɒstʃuleɪt / (say uhk sposchoohlayt), /ɛk / (say ek ) verb (i) (expostulated, expostulating) to reason earnestly with a person against something he or she intends to do or has done; remonstrate (on, or upon): to expostulate with him on the… …
16expostulate, postulate — Expostulate means to reason earnestly, to remonstrate, to demand : The policeman expostulated with the motorist about the dangers of fast driving. Postulate is derived from the same Latin word as expostulate but means to claim, assume, ask, or… …
17expostulate — verb Etymology: Latin expostulatus, past participle of expostulare to demand, dispute, from ex + postulare to ask for more at postulate Date: 1573 transitive verb obsolete discuss, examine intransitive verb to reason earnestly with a person for… …
18expostulate — expostulatingly, adv. expostulator, n. /ik spos cheuh layt /, v.i., expostulated, expostulating. to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the… …
19expostulate — Synonyms and related words: admonish, argue, beef, bitch, boggle, boycott, call in question, caution, challenge, charge, combat, complain, cry out against, daunt, debate, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, discuss, dispute, dissuade,… …
20expostulate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. remonstrate, reason; object, protest, rebuke. See advice, disapprobation, dissuasion. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. remonstrate, reason with, dissuade; see object , oppose 1 , remonstrate . See Synonym… …
