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Cackled
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
📖 Definitions of "Cackled"
verb
- 1
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
- 2
To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
"The witch cackled evilly."
- 3
To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cackled"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| chirpedverb | (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter. |
| squealedverb | (ambitransitive) To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. |
| shriekedverb | uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror |
| holleredverb | (intransitive) To yell or shout. |
| chortledverb | (intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles. |
| jabberedverb | (intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. |
| murmuredverb | (intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter. |
| mutteredverb | (transitive, intransitive) To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath. |
| bellowedverb | To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull. |
| hissedverb | (intransitive) To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping. |
| smirkedverb | To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. |
| yelpedverb | To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise. |
| titteredverb | To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement. |
| chuckledverb | To laugh quietly or inwardly. |
| growledverb | (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. |
| grinnedverb | (intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. |
| purredverb | (intransitive, of a cat) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented or in certain other conditions. |
| giggledverb | To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner. |
| exclaimedverb | (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion. |
| laughedverb | (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. |
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