intransitive. With with or †gainst. To make a complaint, protest, or objection; to find fault, take exception.

intransitive. To protest, object, disagree. Also figurative. Obsolete.

The courteous or ceremonious expression of apology or deprecation: in phrases to make courtesy (at), to make a show of ceremonious deprecation…

intransitive. Originally: to make a formal (often written) declaration against a proposal, decision, etc.; to complain, remonstrate. Now usually…

transitive. To contest again. Also intransitive.

intransitive. To remonstrate; to complain; to rail against.

intransitive. (a) To make supplication or entreaty; to beseech or implore; to plead with a person. (b) To call heaven to witness; to protest against.

intransitive. To act as a remonstrant (remonstrant, n. 2); to remonstrate; to protest against something.

intransitive. With with or against.

intransitive. To present objections to something; to make representations against. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of a (large) number of people: to express collective disapproval or dissent publicly, typically by means of an organized…