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exclaimed

/ɛkˈskleɪmd/

exclaimed is the simple past and past participle of exclaim.

Meaning of exclaim

Verb

exclaim (third-person singular simple present exclaims, present participle exclaiming, simple past and past participle exclaimed)

  1. (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
    • I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,
      Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (transitive) To say suddenly and with strong emotion.
    • Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong?
      Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long?
      Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare,
      Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare.1603, Michael Drayton, “Alice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince”, in The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second, London: N. Ling, page 31

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Questions about exclaimed

What is exclaimed the simple past and past participle of?
Exclaimed is the simple past and past participle of exclaim.
How do you pronounce exclaimed?
Exclaimed is pronounced /ɛkˈskleɪmd/.

Words near exclaimed in the dictionary

  1. excize
  2. excizes
  3. excl
  4. excl.
  5. exclaim
  6. exclaimed
  7. exclaimer
  8. exclaimers
  9. exclaimest
  10. exclaimeth
  11. exclaiming

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