All 7 Uses of
utter
in
Nineteen Minutes
- 'I'm sure Detective Ducharme will make this utterly painless,' the judge said.†
Chpt 1 *utterly = completely or totally
- The courtroom had gone utterly silent.†
Chpt 2
- She stood up, patting Peter's back the way Lacy had, wishing he would run out of steam or contract laryngitis or just simply have mercy on her utter inexperience.†
Chpt 1
- they'd said, and at the time, Lewis had not been able to understand that utter lack of hope.†
Chpt 1
- Diana watched Peter Houghton stumble between the hold of two sheriff's deputies and turn back to his lawyer one last time with a question on his lips that he didn't utter.†
Chpt 1
- Josie was caught somewhere between utter relief, knowing her mom would be sitting on the case, and absolute terror.†
Chpt 1
- She usually let Peter's room stand in utter pigsty disarray, but as she passed by that morning, she noticed his laundry bin.†
Chpt 2
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.