exclaim

1. (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.Examples: "I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness."; "Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them."; "This wretched note was the finale of Emma’s breakfast. When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim."intransitive

2. (transitive) To say suddenly and with strong emotion.Examples: "Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong? Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long? Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare, Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare."; "[…] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—"; "Without returning any direct reply, Miss Squeers, all at once, fell into a paroxysm of spiteful tears, and exclaimed that she was a wretched, neglected, miserable castaway."transitive