Translation
to shout, to cry out, to scream
Examples
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Do not shout so loudly!
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The child cried out in pain.
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He shouted something, but I did not hear.
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She shouted to him through the window.
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The people shouted the king's name.
The false friend is worth flagging first: is to shout, never to weep. Tears are , and confusing the two gives you a room full of people yelling when you meant they were upset. The - prefix is so common on this root that , to let out a sudden shout, has earned its own place in the frequency list, and it is what narrative prose uses to introduce an exclamation. Krio is a shout, i is to scream outright, and you shout a person but shout a word as a plain object.
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