insist
🇺🇸
/ɪnˈsɪst/
🇬🇧
/ɪnˈsɪst/
verb
B2
to strongly ask for something to happen or for someone to do something
Please stay for dinner. I insist!
B2
to say firmly that something is true, even if others disagree
He insist that he is innocent.
translation
to strongly ask for something to happen or for someone to do something; to say firmly that something is true, even if others disagree
Word Forms
3rd Present
insists
Past
insisted
Perfect
insisted
Progressive
insisting