exclaim

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   state or announce

   They exclaimed that they were not communists.

2. 2
   verb

   To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.

   I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Exclamation; outcry, clamor.

   Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not; For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell, Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.

5. 5
   verb

   utter aloud

Etymology

From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).