expostulate

[US]/ɪkˈspɒstʃuleɪt/
[UK]/ɪkˈspɑːstʃuleɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. 반대 etmek; vazgeçirmek
n. vazgeçirme; itiraz
Word Forms
Past Tenseexpostulated
Third Person Singularexpostulates
Past Participleexpostulated
Present Participleexpostulating
Pluralexpostulates

Phrases & Collocations

expostulate vehemently

hararetli bir şekilde tartışmak

expostulate with someone

birisiyle tartışmak

Example Sentences

expostulate with sb. about sth.

bir şey hakkında biriyle tartışmak/azarlamak

Didn’t I ever expostulate with you on the subject?

Sana bu konu hakkında hiç posta yollamadım mı?

They expostulate with him about the risk involve in his plan.

Planında yer alan riskler hakkında onunla tartışıyorlar/azarlıyorlar.

She expostulate with her husband about his habit of smoking in bed.

Yatakta sigara içme alışkanlığı hakkında kocasını azarladı/tartıştı.

The father expostulate with his son about the foolishness of leaving school.

Baba, oğlunu okuldan ayrılmanın aptallığı hakkında azarladı/tartıştı.

Her parents expostulated with her on the foolhardiness of her behavior. See also Synonyms at intention

Ebeveynleri davranışının aptallığı hakkında onunla tartıştı/azarladı. Ayrıca niyet kısmındaki eş anlamlılara bakın.

Real-world Examples

'It is not on that account, indeed, ' Elfride expostulated.

'Bu yüzden değil, aslında,' Elfride yakındı.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

" Now, now" ! Mrs. Adams interrupted, expostulating mournfully.

Source: Lonely Heart (Part 2)

Pray leave me, Mrs. Jethway'. The girl only expostulated now.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate.

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

" No, no-don't say I should change" ! he expostulated; yet there was misgiving in his own voice also.

Source: The Unnamed Jude (Middle)

" But you must have known, " I expostulated. " You were taken up to see her this afternoon" .

Source: Murder at the golf course

I expostulated with him, but in vain; neither would he so much as tell me who their new captain was.

Source: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

He might have been a doctor summoning the next patient from the waiting-room, a hysterical patient who had been expostulating feebly with a nurse.

Source: Casino Royale of the 007 series

But even before these sounds arose, the ladies looked at one another stunned. For the drunken voices expostulating with Rhett were those of Ashley and Hugh Elsing.

Source: Gone with the Wind

" But she's such a sweet woman, " Mrs. Bradley expostulated, as though it were very hoity-toity of me not to know that royal personage.

Source: Blade (Part 1)

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