REMONSTRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remonstrate mean? 

• REMONSTRATE (verb)
  The verb REMONSTRATE has 3 senses:

1. argue in protest or opposition

2. present and urge reasons in opposition

3. censure severely or angrily

  Familiarity information: REMONSTRATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMONSTRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they remonstrate    ... he / she / it remonstrates   
Past simple: remonstrated   
Past participle: remonstrated   
-ing form: remonstrating   

Sense 1

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 2

Meaning:

Present and urge reasons in opposition

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

point out; remonstrate

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Censure severely or angrily

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

Context example:

The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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

 Context examples 

“Don't you think, my dear,” said I, “it would be better for you to remonstrate with Mary Anne?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was summoned once for a savage assault upon the old vicar, who had called upon him to remonstrate with him upon his conduct.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I will, sire, I will!” cried the frightened host, and bustled from the room, while the soft, soothing voice of the woman was heard remonstrating with her furious companion.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When reason returned, she would remonstrate and endeavour to inspire me with resignation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have told you that she had only recently recovered from an illness, and was looking so wretchedly pale and wan that I remonstrated with her for being at work.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My wife has frequently remonstrated with me upon the subject, and yet I fancy that any man of honor would feel the same.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You shall not make a guy of yourself, remonstrated Meg, as Jo tied down with a red ribbon the broad-brimmed, old-fashioned leghorn Laurie had sent for a joke.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Miss Temple seemed to remonstrate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)