hoarse

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1. hoarse - Noun

2. hoarse - Adjective

3. hoarse - Verb

5. hoarse - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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

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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. John Steinbeck

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines. Fred Allen

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten. Jean Genet

Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little hoarse." He cackled breifly at his own wit. John Flanagan

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done". Judith McNaught

For Poirot, uttering a hoarse and inarticulate cry, again annihilated his masterpiece of cards and putting his hands over his eyes swayed backwards and forwards, apparently suffering the keenest agony. "Good heavens Poirot!” I cried. "What is the matter? Are you taken ill?”. Agatha Christie

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