bark

²bark

verb

Definition of BARK

to speak sharply or irritably <the new supervisor found that speaking to people with a civil tongue got better results than barking at them>

Synonyms bark, snarl

Related Words growl, grumble; roar, scream, shout, shriek, yell; fulminate, rage, rant, rave, sputter, storm, tee off, vent, vituperate; blow up, explode, flare (up), flip (out) [slang]

Near Antonyms calm (down), simmer down