What does latrate mean?
Latrate means (rare) To bark; to make doglike noises..
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/læˈtreɪt/ · verb
(rare) To bark; to make doglike noises..
Latrate, to barke like a dog.
I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.
[…] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.
With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.
Use latrate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Latrate means (rare) To bark; to make doglike noises..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Latrate, to barke like a dog.
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