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| bark [ baark ] |
noun (plural barks) |
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1. dog's sound: the characteristic loud abrupt sound made by a dog or fox
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2. abrupt sound: a loud abrupt sound
  the bark of guns in the distance
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verb (past and past participle barked, present participle bark·ing, 3rd person present singular barks) |
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1. make dog's sound: to make the loud abrupt sound characteristic of a dog or fox
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2. intransitive verb make abrupt sound: to make a loud abrupt sound
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3. transitive and intransitive verb utter something abruptly: to say something in a loud abrupt manner
He barked out an order.
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| [ Old English (ge)beorc (noun), beorcan (verb) < Germanic] |
