| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl t |
| NOUN: | 1a. The characteristic cry of a goat or sheep. b. A sound similar to this cry. 2. A whining, feeble complaint. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: bleat·ed, bleat·ing, bleats
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To utter the characteristic cry of a goat or sheep. 2. To utter a sound similar to this cry, especially a whine. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To utter in a whining way. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English blet, from bleten, to bleat, from Old English bl tan. | | OTHER FORMS: | bleat er —NOUN
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