ENGLISH: insist - CREOLE: ensiste



Overview of verb insist



The verb insist has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)



1. (59) insist, take a firm stand -- (be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!")

2. (4) importune, insist -- (beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them")

3. (1) insist, assert -- (assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society")

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