vociferate
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/, /vəˈsɪfəɹeɪt/
Verb

vociferate (vociferates, present participle vociferating; past and past participle vociferated)

  1. (intransitive) To cry out with vehemence
    Synonyms: exclaim, bawl, clamor
    • 1782, William Cowper, Conversation
      Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗:
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      He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?
  2. (transitive) To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
    • Though he may vociferate the word liberty.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:
      At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.
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