vociferate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/, /vəˈsɪfəɹeɪt/
vociferate (vociferates, present participle vociferating; past and past participle vociferated)
- (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 (
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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?
- (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.
- Portuguese: vociferar
- Spanish: vociferar
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