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ALOUD
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Using the voice; not silently
Example:
he laughed out loud
Synonyms:
aloud; out loud
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
With relatively high volume
Example:
cried aloud for help
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker—ker—ker became a mock to him, and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“I should be most happy,” replied he aloud, and jumping up with alacrity, “it would give me the greatest pleasure; but that I am this moment going to dance.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It will be natural for me, he added shortly afterwards, to speak my opinion aloud as I read.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Catherine followed her orders and turned away, but not too soon to hear her friend exclaim aloud to James, “What a sweet girl she is! I quite dote on her.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Is that where the shoe galls?” cried the bowman, and laughed aloud.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That’s old Lord Dudley, and he has a trick of thinking aloud.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Jennings soon appeared, and the note being given her, she read it aloud.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
