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▸ verb: (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
▸ verb: To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
▸ verb: Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
▸ noun: A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
▸ noun: A shout or scream.
▸ noun: Words shouted or screamed.
▸ noun: A clamour or outcry.
▸ noun: (collectively) A group of hounds.
▸ noun: (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
▸ noun: (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
▸ noun: A desperate or urgent request.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Common report; gossip.
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