(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
If you ~, you say something very loudly, usually because you want people a long distance away to hear you or because you are angry.
He had to ~ to make himself heard above the near gale-force wind...
‘She’s alive!’ he ~ed triumphantly...
Andrew rushed out of the house, ~ing for help...
You don’t have to ~ at me...
I ~ed at mother to get the police...
The driver managed to escape from the vehicle and ~ a warning.
VERB: V, V with quote, V for n, V at n, V at n to-inf, V n
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Shout is also a noun.; If you say that someone is in with a ~ of achieving or winning something, you mean that they have a chance of achieving or winning it. (INFORMAL)
The decision was greeted with ~s of protest from opposition MPs...
I heard a distant ~.
He knew he was be in with a ~ of making Craig Brown’s squad for Japan.
N-COUNT; PHRASE