All 9 Uses
utter
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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- He put his hand there and uttered this incantation impressively: "What hasn't come here, come!†
Chpt 8uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- He needn't have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered.†
Chpt 28 *
- Huck was in a close place—the inquiring eye was upon him—he would have given anything for material for a plausible answer—nothing suggested itself—the inquiring eye was boring deeper and deeper—a senseless reply offered—there was no time to weigh it, so at a venture he uttered it—feebly: "Sunday-school books, maybe."†
Chpt 30
- The air was utterly dead.†
Chpt 7 *
- The boys cried out to each other, but the roaring wind and the booming thunder-blasts drowned their voices utterly.†
Chpt 16
- Sid had better judgment than to utter the thought that was in his mind as he left the house.†
Chpt 18
- Tom struggled awhile and then retired, utterly defeated.†
Chpt 21
- There in the middle of the moonlit valley below them stood the "ha'nted" house, utterly isolated, its fences gone long ago, rank weeds smothering the very doorsteps, the chimney crumbled to ruin, the window-sashes vacant, a corner of the roof caved in.†
Chpt 25
- The children fastened their eyes upon their bit of candle and watched it melt slowly and pitilessly away; saw the half inch of wick stand alone at last; saw the feeble flame rise and fall, climb the thin column of smoke, linger at its top a moment, and then—the horror of utter darkness reigned!†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.