clamor

plural clamors · alternative Commonwealth clamour

1. UScountableuncountableA great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.

   For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

   1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 17

   Synonyms: outcry, tumult

2. UScountableuncountableAny loud and continued noise.
3. UScountableuncountableA continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

present singular third person clamors · participle present clamoring · participle past clamored · past clamored · alternative Commonwealth clamour

1. USintransitiveTo cry out or demand.

   Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.

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   All the universities are sending in long petitions to restrict their production. Otherwise, they say, mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility. But the R. U. R. shareholders, of course, won't hear of it. All the governments, on the other hand, are clamoring for an increase in production, to raise the standards of their armies. And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad.

   c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2

   […] the cloth was removed, revealing seriously deformed and ugly feet. Bystanders immediately clamored for the cloth to be put back on, and not only because the feet were ugly – they really stunk, enough to bring tears to your eyes […]

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 39

   Synonyms: din

2. UStransitiveTo demand by outcry.

   Thousands of demonstrators clamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears

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   The distinctness of London has led many to clamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.

   2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013

3. USintransitiveTo become noisy insistently.

   After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored

4. UStransitiveTo influence by outcry.

   His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote

5. USobsoletetransitiveTo silence.