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BLEAT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("bleat" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Derivation:

bleat (cry plaintively)

 II. (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 "bleat" 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 bleat in the meadows

The meadows bleat with animals

Derivation:

bleat (the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Talk whiningly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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