Hoarse

Word HOARSE
Character 6
Hyphenation hoarse
Pronunciations /hɔːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Hoarse"

What do we mean by hoarse?

Rough or grating in sound. adjective

Having or characterized by a husky, grating voice. adjective

Deep and rough or harsh to the ear; discordant; raucous.

Having a deep and harsh or grating voice; uttering low raucous sounds: as, to be hoarse from a cold.

To render hoarse: as, he was all hoarsed up.

Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound. adjective

Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound. adjective

Afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice. adjective

Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion adjective

Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.

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The word "hoarse" in example sentences

His voice hoarse from a brewing head cold, he has gone from Oregon to Washington to California to Nevada. ❋ Philip Rucker (2010)

He threw his head back and opened his mouth and the laughter came up in hoarse, loud hoots. ❋ Unknown (1978)

It had not escaped him that his opponent was breathing in short, hoarse gasps, like a man who is dizzy with fatigue. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

At last the former gradually subsided, and the latter, obeying the retreating tide, rolled away in hoarse murmurs. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Master Adolphus was also in the newspaper line of life, being employed, by a more thriving firm than his father and Co., to vend newspapers at a railway station, where his chubby little person, like a shabbily – disguised Cupid, and his shrill little voice (he was not much more than ten years old), were as well known as the hoarse panting of the locomotives, running in and out. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Baris called a hoarse order and the ramp began to lower. ❋ Norton, Andre (2004)

You can actually have a conversation without shouting yourself hoarse, which is more than you can say about many of the designer-hotel dining rooms with their black leather banquettes and steel or glass walls. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Women cried out, children shrieked, men called hoarse warnings. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1998)

“What about them?” called the hoarse-voiced man, gesturing toward the gate. ❋ Maxwell, Ann (1988)

"If you chaps knew your business you would be at anchor instead of cruising round in this fog," called a hoarse voice from the steamer. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)

He recalled the hoarse unnatural voice and the blind fumbling at her telephone. ❋ Thomas Dixon (1905)

Peacocks at any rate are beautiful, and, if their voices are apt in England to become a little hoarse, that is only because they screech when the weather is going to be bad. ❋ Various (1898)

The Bulls snorted restlessly and called hoarse-voiced to their consorts: "Speed fast, for something evil follows." ❋ William Alexander Fraser (1896)

Alec, throwing an arm round his mother, recalled the hoarse yelling of the newsboys on the boulevards. ❋ Louis Tracy (1895)

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