Meaning of HOARSE
| Pronunciation: | | howrs
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| | Definition: | | [adj] deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson |
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| | Synonyms: | | cacophonic, cacophonous, gruff, husky |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hoarse\, a. [Compar. {Hoarser}, superl. {Hoarsest}.]
[OE. hors, also hos, has, AS. h[=a]s; akin to D. heesch, G.
heiser, Icel. h[=a]ss, Dan. h[ae]s, Sw. hes. Cf. Prov. E.
heazy.]
1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when
affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound;
as, the hoarse raven.
The hoarse resounding shore. --Dryden.
2. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
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| | Related Terms: | | blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, jarring, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, quavering, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stifled, strangled, strident, stridulous, thick, throaty, tinny, tremulous, twangy, velar |
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