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Shouting   /ʃˈaʊtɪŋ/   Listen
Shouting

noun
1.
Encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators.  Synonym: cheering.
2.
Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement.  Synonym: yelling.


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"



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"Shouting" Quotes from Famous Books



... to such a degree that it left me only a narrow neck of firm ground to advance over toward the point occupied by the Indians. On this neck of land the hostiles had taken position, as I soon learned by frequent shots, loud shouting, and much blustering; they, by the most exasperating yells and indecent exhibitions, daring ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan
... so softly, so tenderly, that, spellbound, she never knew when lingering sound became enduring silence. She awoke as it were from a long dream and knew that her heart was beating with a wild and poignant longing that was pain. Then there arose a great shouting, and instinctively she laid her hand on Fielding's ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... eye to the slit, and saw at the summit of a hillock a dozen horsemen urging on their horses in the track of the dogs, shouting, "Taiaut! taiaut!" ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... there was more than the ordinary morning commotion of farm life, and the buzz of talk going on at the well and the racing and shouting of a parcel of children all had in it a touch of eagerness and expectancy. While I still was drinking my coffee—in the excellence and delicate service of which I recognized the friendly hand of Mise Fougueiroun—there ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier
... trees, their surpassingly beautiful flowers, the white marble statuary, the fountains, and the many tame animals—especially monkeys, parrots, brightly coloured finches, and all sorts of song-birds—which were sporting about in them among merrily shouting children. We were astonished at the extraordinary cleanness of the streets; and the chief reason of this was said to be that, since the invention of automatic carriages, no draught animals kicked up dust or dropped filth in the streets of ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka


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