nag

/næg/ verb [I, T] (present participle nagging, past tense and past participle nagged)

Definition

› to keep criticizing or giving advice to someone in an annoying way: They keep nagging me about going to university.

(Definition of nag verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to express disagreement or refuse to do something

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