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Growl   /graʊl/   Listen
noun
Growl  n.  The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.



verb
Growl  v. t.  To express by growling.



Growl  v. i.  (past & past part. growled; pres. part. growling)  To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.






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"Growl" Quotes from Famous Books



... indowed with th' strength iv a thousand piany movers. With a gesture iv impatience he shed his coat, f'r it was Spring, childher, an' he shud've been more careful; he shed his coat, swiftly climbed th' tree an' boldly advanced on th' foe. His inimy give th' low growl iv his hated thribe. How manny a time have I heerd it in Englewood an' shuddered with fear. But th' dauntless Tusky answered back with his battle song, th' long chirp iv th' wild wolf, his wife accompanyin' him fr'm th' foot iv th' tree on a sheep bone. With wan spring th' inthrepid wolf sprang ...
— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne

... the concluding words of her sister's speech with some surprise, and also noticed the abstracted air. She is about to ask for an explanation, when the dialogue is interrupted. Wolf rushes past with a fierce growl: ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... so damned quarrelsome," said the Corporal, "wringle, wrangle, wrongle, snap, growl, scratch; that's not what a man of the world does; man of the world niver quarrels; then, too, these creturs always fancy you forgets that their father was a clargyman; they always thinks more of their family, ...
— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... to tell us tidings we wish to know. Since the fight this morning we have been allowed to do no more than growl at the English dogs across the plain, because it was held unadvisable to make an onset until the Jarl's men should increase our strength. It is to be hoped they ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... went on again, floundering through steadily deepening snow, until once more the roar of water met them as they dipped into a hollow. It grew louder rapidly, and presently Alton pulled the Cayuse up on the brink of a river. It came down frothing out of a haze of sliding snow, tumbling with a hoarse growl about the great dim boulders, whirled and tossed in a white confusion down the wild race of a rapid, and was lost again. How far the other bank was there was nothing to show, for even the scattered pines ...
— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss


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