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  1. transitive verb To send forth with the voice: uttered a cry.
  2. transitive verb To articulate (words); pronounce or speak. See Synonyms at vent1.
  3. transitive verb Law To put (counterfeit money, for example) into circulation.

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  • The holiness of lovers' love, of wedded love, of mother-love, would at times flit before her imagination; and her heart, still warm, still young, trembled to picture the lonely old age, the hearth blank and silent, the utter isolation from all those natural ties whose place not even the dearest bonds of adopted affection can. —  Olive A Novel
  • Such was the account he gave of himself to his contemporaries; such thoughts he chose to utter, and in such language: giving himself out for a grave and patriotic public servant. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • He had begun on the spot, for one of the quarterlies, a great last word on Vereker's writings, and this exhaustive study, the only one that would have counted, have existed, was to turn on the new light, to utter--oh, so quietly!--the unimagined truth. —  Embarrassments
  • The flatterers of his day, inevitable products of his reign, did their work so thoroughly that even in secret they do not appear to have dared to utter--possibly they did not even dare to think--the truth about him. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
  • I am being murdered From within came no answer--utter silence Giovanna! —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
 

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  1. Middle English utteren, partly from Middle Low German uteren (from uter, outer, comparative of ūt, out; see ud- in Indo-European roots) and alteration (influenced by utter, outer) of Middle English outen, to disclose (from out, out; see out).
  2. Middle English, from Old English ūtera, outer; see ud- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English utter, uttur, uttre, from Anglo-Saxon ūtera, ūtterra, ūttra, y¯tra = OFries. ūtere = Old High German ūzero, ūzzero = Icelandic ytri = Swedish yttre = Danish ydre, adjective; cf. early Middle English utter, from Anglo-Saxon ūtor, ūttor = Old Saxon ūtar = Old High German ūzer, ūzer, Middle High German ūzer, German äusser, adverb and preposition; comparative of Anglo-Saxon ūt, etc., out: see out, and ef. outer, of which utter is a doublet.
  2. from Middle English uttren, outren (= Low German ütern = Middle High German ūzern, inzern, German äussern = Swedish yttra = Danish ytre), put out, utter, from Anglo-Saxon ūtor, ūttor, out, outside: see utter, adjective Cf. out, v.
  3. from utter, a.
 

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