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| Sounds | grah'nt |
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| Rhymes | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, and 658 more rhymes in ahnt... |
| Meaning | The short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs. |
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| Synonyms | oink |
| Broader | noise |
| Verbs | grunt |
| Meaning | An unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker. |
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| Examples | "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years" |
| Broader | unskilled person |
| Meaning | Medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught. |
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| Member of | Haemulidae, family Haemulidae |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean |
| Narrower | margate, Haemulon album; Spanish grunt, Haemulon macrostomum; tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum; cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum; sailor's-choice, sailors choice, Haemulon parra; porkfish, pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus; pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis; pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus |
| Meaning | Issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Examples | "He grunted his reluctant approval" |
| Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose |
| Nouns | grunt; grunter; grunter |
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