Demurred Definition

verb
Demurred is defined as you hesitated or declined to do something, or you objected.
When you are invited to participate in an activity and you declined because you thought it was illegal, this is an example of when you demurred.
When someone accused you of injuring him and filed a complaint with the court and you objected, this is an example of when you demurred.
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Simple past tense and past participle of demur.

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Demurred Sentence Examples

  • To this also Napoleon demurred.

  • He politely demurred; but he could marshal no argument against hers.

  • Bonaparte by his victories over the Austrians in Italy and Styria had raised the French republic to heights of power never dreamed of, and now desired to impose on the emperor terms of peace, to which the Directors demurred.

  • He promised she could work from home and even offered a substantial raise to which she crocodile-tearfully demurred.

  • He talked about tangential energy and radial energy and most of us who were scientists really rather demurred from that.

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