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exclaimest

exclaimest is the second-person singular simple present indicative 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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Origin of exclaimest

exclaim + -est

Questions about exclaimest

What is exclaimest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Exclaimest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of exclaim.

Words near exclaimest in the dictionary

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

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