Remonstrate

remonstrate
    v 1: argue in protest or opposition
    2: present and urge reasons in opposition [syn: {remonstrate},
       {point out}]
    3: 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}, {rag}, {trounce}, {reproof}, {lecture},
       {reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress down}, {call down}, {scold},
       {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out}, {remonstrate}, {chew out},
       {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
    

Remonstrate \Re*mon"strate\ (-str?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Remonstrated} (-str?*t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remonstrating}.]
   [LL. remonstratus, p. p. of remonstrare to remonstrate; L.
   pref. re- + monstrare to show. See {Monster}.]
   To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest;
   hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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         I will remonstrate to you the third door. --B. Jonson.
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Remonstrate \Re*mon"strate\, v. i.
   To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure,
   or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to
   remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to
   remonstrate against proposed taxation.
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         It is proper business of a divine to state cases of
         conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing
         corruptions in practice, and especially in principles.
                                                  --Waterland.
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   Syn: {Expostulate}, {Remonstrate}.

   Usage: These words are commonly interchangeable, the
          principal difference being that expostulate is now
          used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior
          or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the
          harshness of a father; a father expostulates with his
          son on his waywardness. Subjects remonstrate with
          their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the
          parliament or the people.
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "remonstrate":
      admonish, beef, bitch, boggle, boycott, call in question, caution,
      challenge, charge, combat, complain, complain loudly, confront,
      contend with, cry out against, daunt, demonstrate,
      demonstrate against, demur, dispute, dissent, dissuade, encourage,
      enjoin, enter a protest, except, exhort, expostulate, face down,
      face out, face up to, fight, frighten off, front, holler, howl,
      incite, induce, intimidate, inveigh against, issue a caveat, kick,
      kick against, kid out of, make a stand, march, meet head-on, move,
      object, offer resistance, oppose, persuade, picket, preach,
      press objections, prompt, protest, raise a howl, rally,
      recalcitrate, reluct, resist, revolt, scruple, show fight, sit in,
      squawk, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to,
      state a grievance, strike, strive against, talk out of, teach in,
      unpersuade, urge, warn, withstand, yell bloody murder