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Hoarse   /hɔrs/   Listen
adjective
Hoarse  adj.  (compar. hoarser, superl. hoarsest)  
1.
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. "The hoarse resounding shore."
2.
Harsh; grating; discordant; said of any sound.





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"Hoarse" Quotes from Famous Books



... deep coughs; shrill coughs; hoarse coughs; long coughs; short coughs; coughs that are no coughs at all. Wonder how many ...
— Woman's Endurance • A.D.L.
... this season was about two miles from the ledges; and with the wind free, Leopold calculated that he had made this distance in half an hour. He had cleared away his cable, and had his anchor ready to throw overboard, when the hoarse croaking of a fog-horn attracted his attention. The sound came from the seaward side of him, and from ...
— The Coming Wave - The Hidden Treasure of High Rock • Oliver Optic
... the traces which clung to his imagination were lost in the mists of the horizon, he seated himself on that wild point, forever beaten by the winds, which never cease to agitate the tops of the cabbage and gum trees, and the hoarse and moaning murmurs of which, similar to the distant sound of organs, inspire a profound melancholy. On this spot I found him, his head reclined on the rock, and his eyes fixed upon the ground. I had followed him from the earliest dawn, and, after much importunity, ...
— Paul and Virginia • Bernardin de Saint Pierre
... intense anger. He tried to speak, but his voice was so hoarse that his words were unintelligible. A blue line seemed ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... regards the first division of the subject. I can readily conjecture what should have moved the gall of some learned and intelligent writers who quarrel with certain versifiers; I confess myself, like them, unwilling to be stunned by the Theseids of the hoarse Codri of the day. Bavius and Maevius undoubtedly are, as they ever were, insufferable persons. But it belongs to a philosophical critic ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various


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