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(v)
(transitive) To harass with persistent requests.
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To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
be insistent and refuse to budge
(n)
An urgent demand.
(intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
To place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
(transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.
(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
To position or be positioned physically:
(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
(intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
(transitive) To desire; to want.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
(intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
(transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
(transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
To request forcefully.
(transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
To request or petition.
(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
(intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
(ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
(transitive) To create.
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
(transitive) To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.
To demand ownership of.
(transitive) To do or say again (and again).
to state again (without changing)
(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
To affirm again.
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of reemphasize. [To emphasize again; to reiterate.]
British standard spelling of emphasize.
(transitive) To pronounce.
(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
(transitive) To make prominent; emphasize.
(transitive) To underline; to mark a line beneath text.
To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis.
(heading) To reach out with one's voice.
(transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.
(carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
A male given name.
emphasize anew
(intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
(ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
(transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
(adj)
(said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
Under an obligation to do something.
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
(ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. Always followed by a verbal phrase.
confidently or arrogantly overstepping reasonable bounds.
(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
(transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
Misspelling of insistence. [The state of being insistent.]
(transitive) To assert that something is not true.
(adv)
In an immovable or inflexible manner.
(transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
An act of objecting or taking exception; a scruple; also, an exception taken or objection to something.
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
(transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
A preference; the choice of something preferred.
Driven; forced.
(intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.
(N)
(also known as the Refused) a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Umeå and formed in 1991.