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# remonstrate

«remonstrate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To protest or argue firmly against something, saying it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (remonstrate, remonstrates, remonstrated, remonstrating)

### meaning for a pupil

To protest or argue firmly against something, saying it is wrong or unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remonstrate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character complains firmly to someone, often to object: «remonstrated, "I'm too big for a cradle"»

### examples

- "That is not fair," she remonstrated with the referee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remonstrate/#x1)
- He remonstrated that he had not taken the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remonstrate/#x2)
- Mum remonstrated when we left the mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remonstrate/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remonstrate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remonstrate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.