remonstrate
verb [intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they remonstrate | |
he / she / it remonstrates | |
past simple remonstrated | |
past participle remonstrated | |
-ing form remonstrating |
- remonstrate (with somebody) (about something) | + speech
to protest or complain about something/somebody 抗议;抱怨;埋怨 Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘make plain’): from medieval Latin remonstrat- ‘demonstrated’, from the verb remonstrare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + monstrare ‘to show’.