DEMURRALS Synonyms

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

• the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

• the speech act of objecting

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

• a formal and solemn declaration of objection

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval

• utter words of protest

• express opposition through action or words

• affirm or avow formally or solemnly

• a district that is reserved for particular purpose

• a statement that limits or restricts some claim

• an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

• the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)

• the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

• something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)

• the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

• a state of abeyance or suspended business

• act of putting off to a future time

• (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings

• object to

• enter a demurrer

• (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings

• (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)

• a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure

• a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

• suspension of an ongoing activity

• the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time

• slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

• a state of abeyance or suspended business

• a small concavity

• an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

• an enclosure that is set back or indented

• a pause from doing something (as work)

• put into a recess

• make a recess in

• close at the end of a session