Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To utter (something) or cry out loudly and vehemently, especially in protest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cry out noisily; make an outcry.
- Synonyms To shout, bellow, roar, bawl.
- To utter with a loud voice; assert or proclaim clamorously; shout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
- intransitive verb To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive : To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor. - Cowper
- verb transitive : To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb utter in a very loud voice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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People vociferate, shout, howl, there they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames forth, joviality is flaunted like
Les Miserables 2008
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Ah! you blackguard! to go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take measures!
Les Miserables 2008
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At this climax of the chapter of accidents, the remaining eight-and-twenty vociferate to that degree, that a pack of wolves would be music to them!
Pictures from Italy 2007
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Out of one side of your mouth you vociferate against Bush, but out of the other you pander to the same politicos who hide in Dem clothing.
Think Progress » President Bush has not accepted “the realities 2006
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But while she continued to vociferate, snatching breaths with the skill of the practised singer, she was also coolly taking in and appraising the young man who stood fixing her; and more than one meaning glance was sped at him from under her heavily blued and bistred lids.
Succedaneum 2004
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He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?
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He replied audibly enough, in a fashion which made my companion vociferate, more clamorously than before, that a wide distinction might be drawn between saints like himself and sinners like his master.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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Upon the slightest allusion to the revolutionary government, the whole Convention rise in a mass to vociferate their adherence to it: * the tribunal, which was its offspring and support, is anxiously reinstalled; and the low insolence with which Barrere announces their victories in the Netherlands, is, as usual, loudly applauded.
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A correspondence was "opportunely" intercepted between the Jacobins and the Emigrants in Switzerland, while emissaries insinuated themselves into the Clubs, for the purpose of exciting desperate motions; or, dispersed in public places, contrived, by assuming the Jacobin costume, to throw on the faction the odium of those seditious exclamations which they were employed to vociferate.
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At this moment the audience began to vociferate "prologue, prologue, prologue," when Wignell finding them resolute without moving from the spot, without pausing, or changing his tone of voice, but in all the pomposity of tragedy, went on as if it were part of the play.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
anydelirium commented on the word vociferate
'"I vociferated enough curses to annihilate any fiend in christendom."' -Heathcliff, from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
February 18, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word vociferate
Sit down, sir - or I'll instantly vociferate "Police!"
-- Cox and Box
August 20, 2008