grunt has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ verb ] issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise

Examples

"He grunted his reluctant approval"

Used in print

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

He grunted a sort_of `` yes '' answer .

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

Sometimes he would grunt softly to some invisible onlooker beside him , sometimes he would look stern and moralistic as his pencil did what he disapproved .

Related terms

utter

2
[ noun ] the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs

Related terms

noise

3
[ noun ] an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker

Examples

"infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts" "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"

Related terms

unskilled_person

4
[ noun ] (zoology) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
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