All 17 Uses of
utter
in
Dune
- Her command had been regal, preemptory—uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- By uttering the words, by being there, she made herself infinitely worth their fighting.†
Book 1 (definition 1) *
- Quite suddenly, the Baron's mind could conceive of nothing more beautiful than that utter emptiness of black.†
Book 1 (definition 2)
- Don't waste the population, merely drive them into utter submission.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- Gently, he lowered her to the sand, uttered the word to bring her out of the catalepsis.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- It had brought a stillness to the basin so unuttered that the blue-milk moonlight could almost be heard flowing across sentinel saguaro and spiked paintbrush.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- She realized that she had permitted herself the utterly relaxing sleep of great fatigue, and this suggested something of her own unconscious assessment on personal security within Stilgar's troop.†
Book 2 (definition 2) *
- Night was beginning to utter its shadows along the distant rocks and the dunes.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- Paul felt Chani's hand on his arm, heard a faint dripping sound in the chill air, felt an utter stillness come over the Fremen in the cathedral presence of water.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- They were cheering with utter abandon.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- Have I failed utterly? he asked himself.†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- And Chani's words of caution, whispered at night when her fear for him overcame her, filled his mind: "When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still.†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- Presently, Harah uttered the ritual ending to the ceremony, giving the words a harshness that Jessica had never before heard in them.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- Utter stillness gripped the cavern.†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- Paul staggered as the old man sagged in his arms, felt the death there, the utter flaccidity.†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- The words had been uttered with the Bene Gesserit controlled atonals, carrying in it every shade of contempt and scorn that Paul could put there.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- If this one's been prepared, as I strongly suspect, that word uttered in his ear will render his muscles flaccid and —"†
Book 3 (definition 1)
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)