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clamored

[klam-er] Origin

clam·or

1[klam-er]
noun
1.
a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
2.
a vehement expression of desire or dissatisfaction: the clamor of the proponents of the law.
3.
popular outcry: The senators could not ignore the clamor against higher taxation.
4.
any loud and continued noise: the clamor of traffic; the clamor of birds and animals in the zoo.
verb (used without object)
5.
to make a clamor; raise an outcry.

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Clamored is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
verb (used with object)
6.
to drive, force, influence, etc., by clamoring: The newspapers clamored him out of office.
7.
to utter noisily: They clamored their demands at the meeting.
Also, especially British, clam·our.


Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English clamor (< Anglo-French ) < Latin, equivalent to clām- (see claim) + -or -or1; Middle English clamour < Middle French < Latin clāmōr- (stem of clāmor)

clam·or·er, clam·or·ist, noun


1. shouting. 2. vociferation. 4. See noise.


See -our.

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clam·or

2[klam-er]
verb (used with object) Obsolete.
to silence.

Origin:
1605–15; perhaps spelling variant of clammer, obsolete variant of clamber in sense “to clutch,” hence “reduce to silence”
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clamor
late 14c., from O.Fr. clamour, from L. clamor "a shout," from clamare "to cry out" (see claim). Related: Clamorous (1520s), clamorously (1530s).
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