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BLAT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: blatted    , blatting   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cry plaintively

Example:

The lambs were bleating

Synonyms:

baa; blat; blate; bleat

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "blat" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

You can hear animals blat in the meadows

The meadows blat with animals

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