"yell at" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-yell at.ogg [Australia] Forms: yells at [present, singular, third-person], yelling at [participle, present], yelled at [participle, past], yelled at [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} yell at (third-person singular simple present yells at, present participle yelling at, simple past and past participle yelled at)
  1. (idiomatic) To scold, to rebuke, often by yelling. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to scold by yelling): rähjätä (Finnish), engueuler (French), gronder (French), crier sur (French), sgridare (Italian), накрича́ть (nakričátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), наора́ть (naorátʹ) [perfective] (Russian)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for yell at meaning in English (2.3kB)

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