释义 |
expostulateex‧pos‧tu‧late /ɪkˈspɒstʃəleɪt $ -ˈspɑː-/ verb [intransitive] formal expostulateOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of expostulare, from postulare ‘to ask for’ VERB TABLEexpostulate |
Present | I, you, we, they | expostulate | | he, she, it | expostulates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | expostulated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have expostulated | | he, she, it | has expostulated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had expostulated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will expostulate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have expostulated |
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Present | I | am expostulating | | he, she, it | is expostulating | | you, we, they | are expostulating | Past | I, he, she, it | was expostulating | | you, we, they | were expostulating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been expostulating | | he, she, it | has been expostulating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been expostulating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be expostulating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been expostulating |
- Breeze looked up, meaning to expostulate, but was silenced by what she saw in her sister's face.
- Now and again one would try to expostulate with the man in white but it was no good; nobody was listening.
to express strong disapproval, disagreement, or annoyance with someone—expostulation /ɪkˌspɒstʃəˈleɪʃən $ -ˌspɑː-/ noun [countable, uncountable] |