demurrer
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
Types & categories
- objection hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
(law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings
Types & categories
- pleading hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
he gave evidence for the defense
Types & categories
- due process hypernym
- entrapment hyponym
Parts & wholes
- trial part holonym
Related & opposite
- prosecution antonym
- traverse derivation
- law domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | demur |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | demur |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | objection |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | demur |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | demur |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pleading |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | prosecution |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | traverse |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | trial |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | due process |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | entrapment |