remonstrate with someone on something

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• remonstrate — [[t]re̱mənstreɪt, AM rɪmɒ̱nstreɪt[/t]] remonstrates, remonstrating, remonstrated VERB If you remonstrate with someone, you protest to them about something you do not approve of or agree with, and you try to get it changed or stopped. [FORMAL] [V… …   English dictionary

• remonstrate — UK [ˈremənˌstreɪt] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms remonstrate : present tense I/you/we/they remonstrate he/she/it remonstrates present participle remonstrating past tense remonstrated past participle remonstrated formal to argue with,… …   English dictionary

• remonstrate — rem|on|strate [ˈremənstreıt US rıˈma:n ] v [i]formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Medieval Latin; Origin: , past participle of remonstrare, from Latin monstrare to show ] to tell someone that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• remonstrate — re|mon|strate [ remən,streıt ] verb intransitive FORMAL to argue with, complain to, or criticize someone about something …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• remonstrate — [ˈremənˌstreɪt] verb [I] formal to argue with, complain to, or criticize someone about something …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• remonstrate — verb (I) formal to tell someone that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done (+ with/against): They only stopped teasing after Evans remonstrated with them. remonstrative adjective …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• give someone hell — (informal) 1 when I found out I gave him hell: REPRIMAND SEVERELY, rebuke, admonish, chastise, chide, upbraid, reprove, scold, berate, remonstrate with, reprehend …   Useful english dictionary

• expostulate — 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… …   Universalium

• let — I. /lɛt / (say let) verb (let, letting) –verb (t) 1. to allow or permit. 2. to allow to pass, go, or come. 3. to cause or allow to escape. 4. Also, let out. to grant the occupancy or use of (land, buildings, rooms, space, etc., or moveable… …  

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• chew up — verb censure severely or angrily The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger s car The deputy ragged the Prime Minister The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup • Syn: ↑call on the carpet, ↑take to task, ↑rebuke, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary