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[ verb ] utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
Examples "`I won!'" he exclaimed" "`Help!' she cried" "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)`` C'est formidable '' , they exclaimed . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made_of a bomb_shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? Related terms |
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[ verb ] state or announce
Synonyms Examples `I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed "The King will proclaim an amnesty" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` Just our luck '' ! exclaimed Stram . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)`` Cook a whole antelope '' ? she exclaimed . Related terms declare declare trumpet declare clarion promulgation ecphonesis proclamation |
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