| VERB | communication | grunt | issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise |
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| NOUN | event | grunt, oink | the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs |
| person | grunt | an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker | |
| animal | grunt | medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught |
| Sounds | grah'nt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | The short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs. | |
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| Synonym | oink | |
| Broader | noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
| Spanish | oink | |
| Catalan | grunyit, oink | |
| Verbs | grunt | issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise |
| Meaning | An unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker. | |
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| Broader | unskilled person | A person who lacks technical training |
| Meaning | medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught. | |
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| Member of | Haemulidae, family Haemulidae | grunts |
| Narrower | Spanish grunt, Haemulon macrostomum | A kind of grunt |
| cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum | Of warm Atlantic waters | |
| margate, Haemulon album | A grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | |
| pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus | Found from Long Island southward | |
| pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis | dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward | |
| porkfish, pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus | black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | |
| sailor's-choice, sailors choice, Haemulon parra | A grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico | |
| tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum | Found off the West Indies and Florida | |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
| Meaning | issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Example | "He grunted his reluctant approval" | |
| Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose | Express audibly |
| Spanish | gruñir | |
| Catalan | grunyir | |
| Nouns | grunt | the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs |
| grunter | domestic swine | |
| grunter | a person who grunts | |
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