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vociferate

/vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/

vociferate verb: to cry out with vehemence.

Verb

vociferate (third-person singular simple present vociferates, present participle vociferating, simple past and past participle vociferated)

  1. (intransitive) To cry out with vehemence
    • Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,1782, William Cowper, Conversation
    • 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?1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    exclaim, bawl, clamor
  2. (transitive) To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
    • Though he may vociferate the word liberty.1779, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary
    • At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

vociferate meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Sanskrit

vociferate in Urdu

چیخنا, شور مچانا

vociferate in Kannada

ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಿರಿಚು, ಅರಚು, ಬೊಬ್ಬೆಯಿಡು

vociferate in Sanskrit

to vociferate
रोरोति roroti, रोरवीति róravīti

Synonyms of vociferate

Forms of vociferate

third-person singular presentvociferates
present participlevociferating
past participlevociferated
pastvociferated

Origin of vociferate

From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari (“to vociferate”), from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear”). See voice, and bear (“to carry”).

Words formed from vociferate

Questions about vociferate

What does vociferate mean?
Vociferate means to cry out with vehemence.
What is vociferate in Urdu?
Vociferate in Urdu is چیخنا, شور مچانا. See Vociferate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is vociferate?
Vociferate is a verb.
How do you pronounce vociferate?
Vociferate is pronounced /vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of vociferate?
The past tense of vociferate is vociferated.

Words near vociferate in the dictionary

  1. voces nihili
  2. vochtenite
  3. vochysiaceous
  4. vociferance
  5. vociferant
  6. vociferate
  7. vociferated
  8. vociferates
  9. vociferating
  10. vociferation
  11. vociferations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vociferate (page history and authors); vociferate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vociferate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); रोरवीति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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