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Utterable

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ut·ter 1  (tr)
tr.v. ut·tered, ut·ter·ing, ut·ters
1. To send forth with the voice: uttered a cry.
2. To articulate (words); pronounce or speak. See Synonyms at vent1.
3. Law To put (counterfeit money, for example) into circulation.
4. To publish (a book, for example).
5. Obsolete To sell or deliver (merchandise) in trading.

[Middle English utteren, partly from Middle Low German uteren (from uter, outer, comparative of t, out; see ud- in Indo-European roots) and alteration (influenced by utter, outer) of Middle English outen, to disclose (from out, out; see out).]

utter·a·ble adj.
utter·er n.

ut·ter 2  (tr)
adj.
Complete; absolute; entire: utter nonsense; utter darkness.

[Middle English, from Old English tera, outer; see ud- in Indo-European roots.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.Utterableutterable - capable of being uttered in words or sentences
expressible - capable of being expressed; "an expressible emotion"


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In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import--an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.
 
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