Español > protestar: 8 sentidos > verbo 1, communication| Sentido | Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness. |
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| Sinónimos | lamentarse, lamentar, quejarse |
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| Específico | aferrar, atrapar, chillar, disputar, dolor de barriga, gimotear, graznar, gritar, lamentarse, quejarse, quejar, renegar, vocear | complain |
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| calumniar, poner a parir | say mean things |
| dar la tabarra | bother persistently with trivial complaints |
| denunciar | complain about |
| deplorar, lamentar, quejarse, sentir | regret strongly |
| despotricar, protestar, quejarse | complain bitterly |
| gimotear, lamentarse, lloriquear, sollozar | complain whiningly |
| gimotear | talk / talk whiningly |
| gruñir, murmurar | make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath |
| gruñir, refunfuñar | show one's unhappiness or critical attitude |
| protestar | Utter words / words of protest |
| refunfuñar | Express discontent |
| Contrario | alegrar, animarse, animar | Become cheerful |
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| Inglés | complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch |
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| Catalán | lamentar-se, lamentar, queixar-se |
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| Nombres | jeremías, llorón, protestón, pupas, quejica, quejón, refunfuñón, rezongón | A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining |
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| protesta, queja, querella | An expression of grievance or resentment |
Español > protestar: 8 sentidos > verbo 2, social| Sentido | Express opposition through action or words / words. |
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| Sinónimos | discrepar, disentir, oponerse, resistirse |
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| Implicado por | abandonar, dejar, desertar | desert (a cause, a country or an army) , often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army |
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| Específico | abandonar el trabajo, declararse en huelga, estar en huelga, hacer huelga, hacer la huelga, parar | stop work in order to press demands |
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| alzarse, manifestar, rebelarse | take part in a rebellion |
| demostrar, manifestarse | march in protest |
| manifestar, renegar, sublevarse | break with established customs / customs |
| General | contradecir | Be resistant to |
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| Inglés | protest, resist, dissent |
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| Catalán | discrepar, oposar-se, protestar, resistir-se |
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| Adjetivo | disconforme, discrepante, objetor | disagreeing, especially with a majority |
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| insubordinado, provocador, resistente, resistivo | disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority |
| protestatario, protestativo | Protesting |
| Nombres | contestatario, disidencia, disidente, manifestante, objetante, objetor | A person who dissents from some established policy |
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| disensión, objeción, protesta | The act of protesting |
| manifestante | someone who participates in a public display of group feeling |
