(~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ against something or about something, you say or show publicly that you object to it. In American English, you usually say that you ~ it.
Groups of women took to the streets to ~ against the arrests...
The students were ~ing at overcrowding in the university hostels...
They were ~ing soaring prices...
He picked up the cat before Rosa could ~.
VERB: V about/against/at n, V about/against/at n, V n, V
2.
A ~ is the act of saying or showing publicly that you object to something.
The opposition now seems too weak to stage any serious ~s against the government...
The unions called a two-hour strike in ~ at the railway authority’s announcement.
...a ~ march.
N-VAR: oft N against/at/about n
3.
If you ~ that something is the case, you insist that it is the case, when other people think that it may not be.
When we tried to ~ that Mo was beaten up they didn’t believe us...
‘I never said any of that to her,’ he ~ed...
He has always ~ed his innocence.
VERB: V that, V with quote, V n