exclaim

1. 1

   To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.intransitive

   • I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.
   • Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.
2. 2

   To say suddenly and with strong emotion.transitive

   • Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong? Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long? Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare, Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare.
   • […] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—

syn. ejaculate. See also Thesaurus:shout

1. 1

   Exclamation; outcry, clamor.obsolete

   • Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not; For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell, Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
   • Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame [...].