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roar

UK /ˈɹɔː/US /ˈɹoɹ/

verb 9
noun 5
forms 5
phrases 6

verb9

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To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
- Sole on the barren sands the suff'ring chief / Roar'd out for anguish, and indulg'd his grief. — 1701
•
Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.
- The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.
•
Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. — 1667
•
To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- This last action will roar thy infamy. — 1639
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
•
(UK, informal) To cry.
- Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig, and away he run! The pig was eat, and Tom was beat, And Tom went roaring down the street. — 1886
•
To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
(figurative) To proceed vigorously.
•
To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. — 1724

noun5

A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
The cry of the lion.
The deep cry of the bull.
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A loud resounding noise.
- I stand amid the roar / Of a surf-tormented shore, / And I hold within my hand / Grains of the golden sand— — 1849
A show of strength or character.

forms

roared · roaring · roareth · roars · roarest

Phrases with roar

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