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Shout   /ʃaʊt/   Listen
Shout

verb
(past & past part. shouted; pres. part. shouting)
1.
Utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking).
2.
Utter a sudden loud cry.  Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell.  "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"
3.
Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy.  Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry.  "'Help!' she cried" , "'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
4.
Use foul or abusive language towards.  Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw.  "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
noun
1.
A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition.  Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell.



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"Shout" Quotes from Famous Books



... babies sink to sleep, and even that much-enduring being, the chambermaid, seeks out some corner for repose. Tired and drowsy, you are just sinking into a doze, when bang! goes the boat against the sides of a lock; ropes scrape, men run and shout; and up fly the heads of all the top-shelfites, who are generally the more juvenile and airy ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... fellows like Jim and me—though Jim's a small potato beside me, as you'll soon find out. Suppose you didn't obey orders—just as I do what Finnegan tells me—just as Finnegan does what the big shout down below says? ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... stage-door of Covent Garden, when, after raising a vociferous cheer, such of them as had money rushed round to the gallery doors, and making their appearance in the front just as he came on the stage, set up a boisterous shout of 'Here he is again!' and cheered him enthusiastically, to the infinite amusement of every person in the theatre who had got wind of ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... that Jake set up a shout and pointed toward the woods. From them a group of men had burst, armed with sticks and stones. They came rushing straight at the ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham
... forward, raised his crowbar, and dealt a tremendous blow on the upper panel. The result was not in the least what any of them anticipated. There was no cracking or rending of wood—only a dull sound, as if the solid wall had been struck. The man dropped his tool with a shout, and began rubbing his elbow. His cry drew their eyes upon him for a moment; then Anderson looked at the door again. It was gone; the plaster wall of the passage stared him in the face, with a considerable gash in it where the crowbar had ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various


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