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EXPOSTULATE

• EXPOSTULATE (verb)
The verb EXPOSTULATE has 1 sense:

1. reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion

Familiarity information: EXPOSTULATE used as a verb is very rare.

• EXPOSTULATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "expostulate" is one way to...):

argue; reason (present reasons and arguments)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

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(Arabic proverb)
"If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them."
(Corsican proverb)

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