Found 3 items, similar to remonstrate.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: remonstrate berbantah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: remonstrate remonstrate v 1: argue in protest or opposition 2: present and urge reasons in opposition [syn: 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, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out , chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Remonstrate 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. [1913 Webster] I will remonstrate to you the third door. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]