Both Uses
utter
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Brideshead Revisited
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- On some days life kept pace with the gondola, as we nosed through the side-canals and the boatman uttered his plaintive musical bird-cry of warning;†
p. 112.2 *uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- And that Reinhardt nun, my dear, has destroyed him—but utterly.†
p. 58.6 *
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.