Ejaculate
[ɪ'dʒækjʊleɪt] or [ɪ'dʒækjulet]
Definition
(v. t.) To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.
(v. t.) To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.
(v. i.) To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.
Checked by Anita
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Utter in an exclamation, utter briefly and suddenly.
Checker: Lorenzo
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EJACULATION]
Edited by Adrian
Definition
v.t. to eject: to utter with suddenness.—v.i. to utter ejaculations.—n. Ejaculā′tion a sudden utterance in prayer or otherwise: what is so uttered.—adjs. Ejac′ulative; Ejac′ulatory uttered in short earnest sentences.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- Here Mr. Smallweed, seized with a fit of coughing in the midst of his triumph, breaks off to ejaculate, Oh, dear me! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Osborne ejaculated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I ejaculated, as a man stepped out of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I ejaculated involuntarily. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Grounds of--' Fogg had ejaculated this much, when he was stopped by Dodson. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The cook and housemaid simultaneously ejaculated 'Lor! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Rot, Xodar, I ejaculated impatiently. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- After looking from Job to Jingle, and from Jingle to Job in profound silence, he softly ejaculated the words, 'Well, I _am_ damn'd! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was an interval of silence, only broken by Miss Betsey's occasionally ejaculating 'Ha! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I could not help ejaculating. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Sir Leicester leans back in his chair, and breathlessly ejaculates, Good heaven! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Maggie