EXCLAIM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exclaim mean? 

• EXCLAIM (verb)
  The verb EXCLAIM has 2 senses:

1. utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

2. state or announce

  Familiarity information: EXCLAIM used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCLAIM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exclaim    ... he / she / it exclaims   
Past simple: exclaimed   
Past participle: exclaimed   
-ing form: exclaiming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call out; cry; cry out; exclaim; outcry; shout

Context example:

'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost

Hypernyms (to "exclaim" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Verb group:

call; cry; holler; hollo; scream; shout; shout out; squall; yell (utter a sudden loud cry)

call out (call out loudly, as of names or numbers)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exclaim"):

gee (give a command to a horse to turn to the right side)

aah; ooh (express admiration and pleasure by uttering 'ooh' or 'aah')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They exclaim that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

exclaiming; exclamation (an abrupt excited utterance)

exclamatory (sudden and strong)

Sense 2

Meaning:

State or announce

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exclaim; proclaim; promulgate

Context example:

The King will proclaim an amnesty

Hypernyms (to "exclaim" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exclaim"):

declare (proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against)

trumpet (proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet)

clarion (proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

exclamation (an exclamatory rhetorical device)

exclamatory (sudden and strong)

 Context examples 

"I don't see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You're a regular Shakespeare!" exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Not from me, sir!" exclaimed Professor Summerlee, heartily.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, indeed, Mrs. Fairfax! exclaimed I, nettled; he is nothing like my father!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Olney hates me!" she exclaimed passionately.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Oh, what an ass I have been!” I exclaimed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kitty stared at him, and Lydia exclaimed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"You must keep your promises to us!" exclaimed Dorothy.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“Micawber!” exclaimed Mrs. Micawber, in tears.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“They have been cut with a knife!” I exclaimed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"It was a charm!" Ugh-Gluk exclaimed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)