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Roaring   /rˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
Roaring

adjective
1.
Very lively and profitable.  Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thriving.  "A palmy time for stockbrokers" , "A prosperous new business" , "Doing a roaring trade" , "A thriving tourist center" , "Did a thriving business in orchids"
noun
1.
A deep prolonged loud noise.  Synonyms: boom, roar, thunder.
2.
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).  Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, yowl.
adverb
1.
Extremely.



Roar

verb
(past & past part. roared; pres. part. roaring)
1.
Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles.  Synonym: howl.  "The water roared down the chute"
2.
Utter words loudly and forcefully.  Synonym: thunder.
3.
Emit long loud cries.  Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl.  "Howl with sorrow"
4.
Act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way.
5.
Make a loud noise, as of animal.  Synonym: bellow.
6.
Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily.  Synonym: howl.



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"Roaring" Quotes from Famous Books



... themselves immensely in a hundred different ways. All had brought along bathing suits and took a dip every day. They also fished, and tramped through the woods at certain points along the stream. One night they went ashore in a field and camped out, with a big roaring fire ...
— The Rover Boys on the River - The Search for the Missing Houseboat • Arthur Winfield

... hand, as delicate as theirs, but which has been so often bathed in hostile blood, they will wish to caress it; and they will kiss it again, when they think that, in our forests, with loaded rifle, and a poniard between your teeth, you smiled at the roaring of a lion or panther for whom you lay ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... thunder was roaring and the rain pouring down, the Empress, at her young brother-in-law's marriage, was the prey to sad reflections. She thought of the deserted American wife, who, far away, was weeping, while her husband, the father ...
— The Court of the Empress Josephine • Imbert de Saint-Amand

... Then one of them dived to the bottom, and managed to bring up the frying-pan and tea-canister. They also recovered part of their blankets, and then, with the frying-pan for their sole paddle, renewed their voyage till they found a good camping-place, where they built a roaring fire to dry themselves, and finally discovered that in the operations of the day each had utterly ruined his shoes, so that they were afterwards forced to go barefoot. In this way they continued for some days, paddling with their frying-pan, and going ashore to get a duck ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various

... descent was made in front of the extended riches, {138b} But the army turned aside, with trailing {138c} shields, And those shields were shivered before the herd of the roaring Beli. {138d} A dwarf from the bloody field hastened to the fence; {139a} And on our side there came a hoary headed man, our chief counsellor, {139b} Mounted on a prancing iebald psteed, and wearing the golden chain. The Boar {139c} proposed ...
— Y Gododin - A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth • Aneurin


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