All 28 Uses of
utter
in
1984 by Orwell
- It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken.
p. 16..1 (definition 1)uttered = said with the voice
- It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer.
p. 16..6 (definition 1) *uttering = saying with the voice
- He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
p. 27..9 (definition 1)
- But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken.
p. 27..9 (definition 1)uttered = said with the voice
- But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.
p. 33..9 (definition 2)utterly = completely or totally
- With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles.
p. 37..5 (definition 1)uttering = making with the voice
- A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.
p. 40..5 (definition 1)uttered = said with the voice
- From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.
p. 53..7 (definition 1)
- The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
p. 54..6 (definition 1)uttered = made with the voice
- It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a room like this, in an arm-chair beside an open fire with your feet in the fender and a kettle on the hob; utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching you, no voice pursuing you, no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly ticking of the clock.
p. 97..1 (definition 2)utterly = completely or totally
- It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a room like this, in an arm-chair beside an open fire with your feet in the fender and a kettle on the hob; utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching you, no voice pursuing you, no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly ticking of the clock.
p. 97..1 (definition 2)
- Their sad, Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks utterly incurious.
p. 115..2 (definition 2)
- He had pulled her down on to the ground, she was utterly unresisting, he could do what he liked with her.
p. 120..3 (definition 2)
- Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?
p. 166..2 (definition 2)
- We shall be utterly without power of any kind.
p. 166..4 (definition 2)
- Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise.
p. 169..4 (definition 1)uttered = made a sound with the voice
- There did not seem to be any further question that he wanted to ask: still less did he feel any impulse to utter high-sounding generalities.
p. 178..4 (definition 1)utter = say with the voice
- He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity.
p. 233..6 (definition 1)
- He became simply a mouth that uttered, a hand that signed, whatever was demanded of him.
p. 242..3 (definition 1)uttered = said with the voice
- All the confessions that are uttered here are true.
p. 254..5 (definition 1)
- O'Brien checked his step as though Winston had uttered the thought aloud.
p. 254..8 (definition 1)
- 'You are thinking,' he said, 'that since we intend to destroy you utterly, so that nothing that you say or do can make the smallest difference — in that case, why do we go to the trouble of interrogating you first?'
p. 254..9 (definition 2)utterly = completely or totally
- He had got to ask it, and yet it was as though his tongue would not utter it.
p. 260..5 (definition 1)utter = say with the voice
- But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.
p. 264..6 (definition 2)utter = complete or total
- Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible — and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord.
p. 268..6 (definition 2)utterly = completely or totally
- And then suddenly, without a word uttered, without a check in his step, without the changing of a line in his face — suddenly the camouflage would be down and bang!
p. 281..5 (definition 1)uttered = said with the voice
- He had the feeling of sitting in utter loneliness.
p. 284..9 (definition 2) *utter = complete or total
- Fragments of triumphant phrases pushed themselves through the din: 'Vast strategic maneuver — perfect co-ordination — utter rout — half a million prisoners — complete demoralization — control of the whole of Africa — bring the war within measurable distance of its end victory — greatest victory in human history — victory, victory, victory!'
p. 297..1 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(2) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)