Both Uses
utter
in
Moon Lake, by Eudora Welty
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- Easter's sighs and her prolonged or half-uttered words now filled the tent, just as the heat filled it.†
*uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- As the three were winding around the lake, a bird flying above the opposite shore kept uttering a cry and then diving deep, plunging into the trees there, and soaring to cry again.†
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.