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clamor

/ˈklæm.ɚ/ verb C2
  1. To cry out or demand. (US, intransitive) · Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.
  2. To demand by outcry. (US, transitive) · Thousands of demonstrators clamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears
  3. To become noisy insistently. (US, intransitive) · After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored
  4. To influence by outcry. (US, transitive) · His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote

He/she/it clamors · Past clamored · Past participle clamored · -ing form clamoring

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Verb forms

Base form
clamor
He/she/it
clamors
Past
clamored
Past participle
clamored
-ing form
clamoring

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Approaching them, he said, “What a clamor you would raise if I were to do as you are doing!”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 42 · B2
“And turn all the people of the villages against us?” clamored Shere Khan.
The Jungle Book, p. 23 · B2
There was a clamor of scores of voices, saying: “What matter?
The Jungle Book, p. 11 · B2
Then the clamor broke out again.
The Jungle Book, p. 57 · B2

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