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bark [ baark ]


noun  (plural barks)
Definition:
 
1. dog's sound: the characteristic loud abrupt sound made by a dog or fox

2. abrupt sound: a loud abrupt sound
the bark of guns in the distance



verb  (past and past participle barked, present participle bark·ing, 3rd person present singular barks)
Definition:
 
1. make dog's sound: to make the loud abrupt sound characteristic of a dog or fox

2. intransitive verb make abrupt sound: to make a loud abrupt sound

3. transitive and intransitive verb utter something abruptly: to say something in a loud abrupt manner
He barked out an order.

[ Old English (ge)beorc (noun), beorcan (verb) < Germanic]
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