insist

English

Alternative forms

• ensist

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪnˈsɪst/, X-SAMPA: /In"sIst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

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Verb

insist (third-person singular simple present insists, present participle insisting, simple past and past participle insisted)

1. (with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.

   The defendant insisted on his innocence.

2. (sometimes with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done.

   The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellor to resign.

   The prime minister insisted that the chancellor resign.

3. (obsolete) To stand on; to rest upon; to lean upon. Used especially as a technical term in geometry.
   • 1709, Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis

     Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.

Translations

to hold up a claim emphatically

• Arabic: إصر (ar) (ʾiṣárra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 堅持 (cmn), 坚持 (cmn) (jiānchí)

• Czech: trvat (cs) (na něčem)
• Dutch: blijven bij (nl), volhouden (nl), met klem beweren (nl), erop staan (nl)
• Esperanto: insisti (eo)
• Finnish: vakuuttaa (fi), vaatia (fi), inttää (fi)
• French: insister (fr)
• German: (auf etwas) bestehen (de)
• Hungarian: kitart (hu), ragaszkodik (hu)
• Japanese: 主張する (ja) (しゅちょうする, shuchō suru)

• Korean: 주장하다 (ko) (jujang-hada)
• Latin: teneo (la)
• Portuguese: insistir (pt)
• Russian: настаивать (ru) (nastáivatʹ) impf., настоять (ru) (nastojátʹ) impf. (на чём-то)
• Slovak: trvať (sk) (na niečom)
• Spanish: insistir (es), empeñarse (es)
• Swahili: shinikizo (sw)
• Telugu: పట్టుబట్టు (paTTubaTTu)
• Turkish: ısrar etmek (tr), bastırmak (tr), üstelemek (tr), yinelemek (tr)

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• Slovak: naliehať

Anagrams

• sit-ins, sits in