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“clamor”
clamber, clamor, clamour
clamber (CLAM buhr, KLAM uhr) (verb)
To scramble, climb, or crawl in an awkward way: The children always clamber over the rocks.
We could only clamber up the steep hill.
clamor (KLAM uhr) (verb)
1. To cry loudly and insistently for something: An uninformed public will always clamor for an arrest in the case.
2. Acting in a loud and noisy way: The children obviously wanted to clamor around the musicians, and to sing songs and to laugh.
2. Acting in a loud and noisy way: The children obviously wanted to clamor around the musicians, and to sing songs and to laugh.
clamour (KLAM uhr [primarily British]) (verb)
To ask for or to demand something in a loud way: Fans were seen to clamour for autographs of the sports stars outside the stadium.
When the tourists tried to clamber down the hillside, they disrupted a flock of geese, the clamor of which could be heard for miles.
A British member of the group wrote a message in his e-mail: "It was almost as if the geese were trying to clamour for attention."
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-or; -our (primarily British)
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1. A loud, noisy outcry typically descriptive of the behavior of a gathering of people, possibly protesting something: The king's speech could barely be heard over the clamor of the crowd's shouting in front of the palace.
The students in the biology class reacted with a clamor of protest and anger because the professor told them that there would be a test tomorrow and they didn't have a warning that this would happen just before the holiday.
2. An overpowering racket or noise created by something: The clamor of the traffic at the hotel gave Mildred a headache; so, she demanded a quieter room away from the highway.The hunters could hear the clamor of the waterfall as they approached their camp for the night.
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clam- [cla-] clamat-, claim-
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clamor (verb), clamors; clamored; clamoring
To make loud bellowing or howling sounds: The cows in the barn were clamoring to be fed in the morning.
Little Jimmy clamored for his mother to come to him because he heard a loud explosion that shook the house.
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