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Growling   /grˈoʊlɪŋ/   Listen
Growling

noun
1.
A gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal).
2.
The sound of growling (as made by animals).  Synonym: growl.


Growl

verb
(past & past part. growled; pres. part. growling)
1.
To utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds.  Synonyms: grumble, rumble.  "Stones grumbled down the cliff"



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"Growling" Quotes from Famous Books



... him growling a little, but when I put my head out of the window again, and said '19 Enderby Street,' ...
— Peterkin • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... his paws; then suddenly quits the path and disappears. Leonard thought at first that the bear had returned within the deadly circle drawn for him by our beaters, till, all at once, on reaching a steep slope covered with reeds, he again heard a growling and perceived the savage beast trying to scale the slope. The place was too steep for a man to climb, but a bear with the help of his long strong claws can scale it like a fly climbing up a wall. Leonard soon ...
— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai
... it presence in yells and clamour, even when in possession of those who have not been trained to the more subdued deportment of reason and propriety. The shouting and declamatory parts of religion may be the evil spirits growling and yelling before they are expelled, but these must not be mistaken for the voice of ...
— The Crater • James Fenimore Cooper
... a dozen wolves ran up to the trunk of the tree, and there gathered snuffing and whining. Presently one caught sight of the two figures above them, and with an angry yelp sprang up in the air, and immediately all were growling, snarling, and leaping. Charlie laughed out loud ...
— A Jacobite Exile - Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden • G. A. Henty
... she could get out of bed, one of the glass panes of the door broke into fragments. Somebody had smashed it with his elbow. A hand came through the opening, turned back the key. The door opened and Trampy entered, raging, growling: ...
— The Bill-Toppers • Andre Castaigne


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