PRONUNCIATION:

(in-VAY) 

MEANING:

verb intr.: To complain or protest with great hostility.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin invehi (to attack with words), from invehere (to carry in). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wegh- (to go or to transport in a vehicle) that also gave us deviate, way, weight, wagon, vogue, vehicle, vector, envoy, and trivial. Earliest documented use: 1486.

USAGE:

“The rabbi inveighed against anyone possessing the popular smartphone. ‘A religious person who owns this impure device is an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain,’ he said.”
Jeremy Sharon; Rabbi Strikes Against iPhone; The Jerusalem Post (Israel); Sep 14, 2012.