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Hoot

To cry out or shout in contempt.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Cry 76% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ineptitude 76% connected

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.

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Outcry 76% connected

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

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Shout 76% connected

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Vociferation 76% connected

The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

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Yell 76% connected

To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

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Raspberry 74% connected

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Raspberry 74% connected

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Bird 92% connected

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Damn 92% connected

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Darn 92% connected

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hiss 92% connected

To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Raspberry 92% connected

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Snort 92% connected

To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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