protesting
present participle ofprotest
| 单词 | protesting |
| 释义 | protesting present participle ofprotest protest verb[IorT] uk/prəˈtest/us/proʊˈtest/B2 to show that youdisagreewith something bystandingsomewhere,shouting,carryingsigns, etc.: Abigcrowdofdemonstratorswere protestingagainstcutsinhealthspending. especially USOutside, agroupofstudentswere protestingresearchcuts. B2 to say somethingforcefullyorcomplainabout something: Lots ofpeopleprotestedaboutthe newworkinghours. They protestedbitterlytotheiremployers, but to noavail. [+ that]Ayounggirlwascrying, protestingthatshe didn'twanttoleavehermother. All through thetrialhe protested hisinnocence(=stronglysaid he was notguilty).
Opposing & against
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Complaining Idiomprotest too much Examplesofprotestingprotesting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Consumers and their representatives put political pressure on management to do whatever is necessary to return theprotestingworkers to their regular work functions. From theCambridge English Corpus Whenprotestingagainst the project they aim also to influence the projects that are, from the government agency's point of view, its alternatives. From theCambridge English Corpus A partner responded to the action of the other with a controlling or humiliating negative response or by physically moving away or verballyprotesting. From theCambridge English Corpus It could be a case of the ladyprotestingtoo much. From theCambridge English Corpus The posters also tended to show the views of peopleprotestingagainst war and in favour of peace. From theCambridge English Corpus It then set up a committee to interview and investigate the professional credentials of theprotestingwriters. From theCambridge English Corpus His essay draws out the national and international limits to claims that the organisations had forged a transnational milieu of protesters and habits ofprotesting. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, our data do not allow us to identify who isprotesting. From theCambridge English Corpus There is culture-internal unease about the edibility of sago grubs, and this unease is compensated throughprotestinga great deal about earthworms. From theCambridge English Corpus Whereas the latter clearly focus on pensions, the union is all over the place but particularly focuses onprotestingagainst cutbacks as such. From theCambridge English Corpus Their criticisms amount to a kind of cultural protectionism, the rearguard action of outmoded gatekeepersprotestingthe rise of new mediators. From theCambridge English Corpus For theprotesting, middle-class voice of the nameless narrator there is only one explanation for the events of the night - the supernatural. From theCambridge English Corpus Given enough time, they'll probably morph into the later generation of tanks that lined up against theprotestingmasses in 1953. From theCambridge English Corpus They sought to weaken the existing government byprotestingpublicly and extracting one concession after another. From theCambridge English Corpus And we have certainly seen that it was never beyond a given pandit to endorse one reformist cause while aaprotestinganother. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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