utter
/ˈʌtəɹ/ verb B2- Sometimes preceded by forth, out, etc.: to produce (a cry, speech, or other sounds) with the voice. · Don’t you utter another word!
- To verbally express or report (a desire or emotion, an idea or thought, etc.).
- To express (oneself) in speech or writing.
- Of a thing: to produce (a noise or sound); to emit. · Sally’s car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
- To speak.
- Of words, etc.: to be spoken.
- To put (currency or other valuable items) into circulation; specifically, to pass off (counterfeit currency, etc.) as legal tender; to use (a forged cheque) as if genuine.
- To pass off (something fake) as a genuine item.
Plural utter · He/she/it utters · Past uttered · Past participle uttered · -ing form uttering
Verb forms
- Base form
- utter
- He/she/it
- utters
- Past
- uttered
- Past participle
- uttered
- -ing form
- uttering
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Fernand closed his eyes, a burning sensation passed across his brow, and he was compelled to support himself by the table to prevent his falling from his chair; but in spite of all his efforts, he could not refrain from uttering a deep groan, which, however, was lost amid the noisy felicitations of the company.
As for Fernand himself, he seemed to be enduring the tortures of the damned; unable to rest, he was among the first to quit the table, and, as though seeking to avoid the hilarious mirth that rose in such deafening sounds, he continued, in utter silence, to pace the farther end of the salon.
“What is the meaning of all this?” inquired Caderousse, frowningly, of Danglars, who had assumed an air of utter surprise.
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
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