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- She uttered the blood-soaked words again.†
p. 75.2 *uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- "I told your father —" But the sentence remained unfinished, the truth unuttered, because the kitchen door suddenly swung open to reveal Flora's father.†
p. 146.6unuttered = not saidstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unuttered means not and reverses the meaning of uttered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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.