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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
admonish, argue, beef, bitch, boggle, boycott, call in question, caution, challenge, charge, combat, complain, cry out against, daunt, debate, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, discuss, dispute, dissuade, encourage, enjoin, enter a protest, except, exhort, fight, frighten off, holler, howl, incite, induce, intimidate, inveigh against, issue a caveat, kick, kid out of, march, move, object, oppose, persuade, picket, preach, press objections, prompt, protest, raise a howl, rally, remonstrate, resist, scruple, sit in, squawk, state a grievance, strike, talk out of, teach in, unpersuade, urge, warn, yell bloody murder
Dictionary Results for expostulate:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
expostulate
    v 1: reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expostulate \Ex*pos"tu*late\ (?; 135), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   Expostulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expostulating.] [L.
   expostulatus, p. p. of expostulare to demand vehemently; ex
   out + postulare to ask, require. See Postulate.]
   To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his
   conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and
   urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; --
   followed by with.
   [1913 Webster]

         Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
         accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
                                                  --Jowett
                                                  (Thuc. ).

   Syn: To remonstrate; reason. See Remonstrate.
        [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expostulate \Ex*pos"tu*late\, v. t.
   To discuss; to examine. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]

         To expostulate
         What majesty should be, what duty is.    --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

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