demur

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• Received-Pronunciation: dĭmûrʹ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɜː/
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• General-American: dĭmûrʹ
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• General-American: /dɪˈmɜɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 M ER1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English demure, demore (“a delay, demur; a sojourn, stay”), from Old French demure, demore, demuere (“a delay, demur”) (modern French demeure), from Old French demorer, demourer (verb): see etymology 1.

From Middle English demuren (“to delay; to linger; to remain (in office); to keep, retain (?)”), from Anglo-Norman demorer and Old French demorer, demourer (“to remain, stay”) (modern French demeurer), from Vulgar Latin dēmorāre, from Latin dēmorārī, the present active infinitive of Latin dēmoror (“to delay, detain; to linger, tarry”), from de- (intensifying prefix) + moror (“to delay, detain; to hinder, impede; to linger, loiter”) (from mora (“a delay; hindrance, obstacle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking; to remember”), probably referring to a time for thinking) + -or (variant of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: колебание (kolebanie) — act of objecting or taking exception — see also scruple
• Bulgarian: скрупули (skrupuli) — act of objecting or taking exception — see also scruple
• Finnish: vastustus — act of objecting or taking exception — see also scruple
• Polish: obiekcja — act of objecting or taking exception — see also scruple
• Serbo-Croatian: колѐба̄ње — act of objecting or taking exception — see also scruple
• Serbo-Croatian: kolèbānje — act of objecting or taking exception — see also scruple
• Bulgarian: опъвам се (opǎvam se) — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Bulgarian: противя се (protivja se) — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: mít námitky — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: protestovat — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: odmítnout — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: ohradit se — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: zdráhat se — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: namítat — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Czech: namítnout — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Dutch: verzet aantekenen — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Finnish: vastustaa — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• German: einwenden — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• German: hindern — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• German: opponieren — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• German: sich verweigern — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• German: widersprechen — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Hungarian: ellenkezik — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Hungarian: ellentmond — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Hungarian: kifogásol — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Hungarian: kifogást emeltiltakozik — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Romanian: opune — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Serbo-Croatian: prigovarati — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Spanish: objetar — (intransitive) to object or be reluctant; (transitive) to object or take exception to (something) — see also balk, take exception
• Finnish: jättää vastine — to submit a demurrer