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roepen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • cry verb To shed tears, usually from sadness, pain, or strong emotion.
  • holler verb To shout loudly, often to get attention or express strong feeling.
  • scuffle noun A brief, disorganized fight or struggle at close quarters.

Senses

roepen is used for these senses in English:

  • call (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
  • call (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
  • call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
  • cry (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  • cry (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
  • holler (intransitive) To yell or shout.
  • holler (transitive) To call out one or more words.
  • scuffle (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

cry — full definition

  1. verb To shed tears, usually from sadness, pain, or strong emotion.
  2. verb To shout or call out loudly.
  3. noun An act of shedding tears.
  4. noun A loud shout or call.

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