n.
1) to lodge, make, raise an ~
2) to deal with, meet an ~
3) to overrule; sustain an ~
4) to withdraw an ~
5) a serious, strenuous, strong, violent, vociferous; valid ~
6) (legal) ~ overruled; ~ sustained
7) an ~ to (to raise an ~ to a proposal; we have no ~s to your going)
8) an ~ that + clause (the judge overruled their ~ that illegal evidence had been introduced)
9) over smb.'s ~s (the resolution was adopted over the vociferous ~s of the opposition)