Insist

Verb

 * 1) (with on or upon) to hold up a claim emphatically.
 * The defendant insisted on his innocence.
 * 1) (with on or upon) to demand continually that something happen or be done.
 * The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellor to resign.
 * 1)  To stand on; to rest upon; to lean upon. Used especially as a technical term in geometry.
 * 2) * 1709: Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis
 * Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.

Adverbs for Insist
hotly; glowingly; indignantly; belligerently; stolidly; perversely; deliberately; pedantically; resolutely; pointedly; pertinaciously; disobligingly; uniformly; emphatically; vehemently; strenuously; obstinately; blandly; sternly; eloquently.

Thesaurus
advocate, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, blandish, brook no denial, cajole, call for, call on, call upon, coax, command, contend, declare, demand, dwell on, emphasize, enunciate, exhort, expostulate, express, force upon, have, high-pressure, hold, importune, insist on, insist upon, issue a manifesto, jawbone, lay down, lobby, maintain, manifesto, nag, persist, plead with, ply, ply upon, predicate, press, press upon, pressure, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, push, push upon, put, put it, recommend, remonstrate, require, say, set down, soft-soap, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, stick to, stress, submit, sweet-talk, take no denial, thrust upon, urge, urge upon, vow, wheedle, work on

Translations

 * Arabic: إصر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: trvat na
 * Dutch: blijven bij, volhouden, met klem beweren, erop staan
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , inttää
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kitart, ragaszkodik


 * Japanese: 主張する
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,   настоять
 * Slovak: trvať (na niečom)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: పట్టుబట్టు (paTTubaTTu)
 * Turkish: ısrar etmek, bastırmak,  üstelemek,  yinelemek


 * Slovak: naliehať

Anagrams

 * sit-ins
 * sits in