expostulate
verb [intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they expostulate | |
| he / she / it expostulates | |
| past simple expostulated | |
| past participle expostulated | |
| -ing form expostulating |
- (+ speech)
to argue, disagree or protest about something 争论；争执；抗议 Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘demand how or why, state a complaint’): from Latin expostulat- ‘demanded’, from the verb expostulare, from ex- ‘out’ + postulare ‘demand’.