bleated
past simple and past participle ofbleat
bleat
verb[I]
uk/bliːt/us/bliːt/When asheeporgoatbleats, it makes thetypicalsoundof theseanimals.
informal
tocomplainin anannoyingway:
She's always bleating(on)about howbadlyshe's beentreated.
Animal (non-human) sounds
- baa
- bleat
- buzzy
- caterwauling
- chatter
- cockcrow
- coo
- cry
- hee-haw
- honk
- howling
- miaow
- moo
- peep
- purr
- quack
- squeak
- trill
- trumpet
- warble
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Complaining
bleat
noun[C]ukus
Examplesofbleated
bleated
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They established various subsidiary agencies, which constantlybleatedand used commercial reasons to justify hiding facts that should have been in the public domain.
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Although itbleated, it expected to take its share of those cuts.
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They justbleatedtheir way through briefs prepared for them.
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He thenbleatedon about the euro and one thing and another.
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I havebleatedabout that many times.
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In one audience they roared with the voice of one element in the combination, in another audience theybleatedtogether with the voice of the other element in the combination.
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Fortunately, goats have very good hearing and the kid goatbleatedwhen it heard movements of the enemy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sheep was discovered because itbleatedas the three men (two men and one sheep) passed through the city wall gate.
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- stew-in-your-own-juice
- stew (in your own juices)
- sth
- sth has to be seen to be believed
- sth-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed
- sth is calling you
- sth-is-calling-you
- sth is the new black
- sth knows no bounds
- sth-knows-no-bounds
- sth's
- sth-s
- STI
- stick
- stick around
- stick-around
- stick-at
- stick at something
- stick at sth
- stick-at-sth
- stickball
- stick blender
- stick-blender
- stick-by
- stick by something/someone