shouted

Verb

shout (third-person singular simple present shouts, present participle shouting, simple past and past participle shouted)

1. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
   • Mom shouted to us to come sit at the table.
2. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out
   • They shouted his name to get his attention.

   Synonyms:

   halloo

3. (figuratively, intransitive) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
   • We walk’d together on the crown
     Of a high mountain which look’d down
     Afar from its proud natural towers
     Of rock and forest, on the hills—
     The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers
     And shouting with a thousand rills.1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
   • "It appears to be the general opinion that it's my business to always shout - I will shout." He took up a hat and defiantly cast twopence into it.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 16

   Synonyms:

   treat

5. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.
   • Please don't shout in the chat room.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To treat with shouts or clamor.
   • How would these men have shouted at the laying on of the last stone of the battlements1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC

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