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GROWLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("growling" is a kind of...):
utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)
Derivation:
growl (to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The sound of growling (as made by animals)
Synonyms:
growl; growling
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("growling" is a kind of...):
cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)
Derivation:
growl (to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb growl
Context examples:
With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Growling savagely, White Fang sprang out of the corner, overturning the boy and the girl.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But the Lion explained that the animals were holding a meeting, and he judged by their snarling and growling that they were in great trouble.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Growling the foulest imprecations, he crawled along the sand till he got hold of the porch and could hoist himself again upon his crutch.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was still cursing when a loud growling was heard, and a black bear came trotting towards them out of the forest.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Last evening after tea,” pursued Miss Murdstone, “I observed the little dog starting, rolling, and growling about the drawing-room, worrying something. I said to Miss Spenlow, “Dora, what is that the dog has in his mouth? It's paper.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sick as he was, Dave resented being taken out, grunting and growling while the traces were unfastened, and whimpering broken-heartedly when he saw Sol-leks in the position he had held and served so long.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
And here, confined, hidden from view all except his ears, no longer growling, he continued to nudge and snuggle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He never saw my aunt without immediately displaying every tooth in his head, retiring under a chair, and growling incessantly: with now and then a doleful howl, as if she really were too much for his feelings.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then the crowd was upon Buck, and he was driven off; but while a surgeon checked the bleeding, he prowled up and down, growling furiously, attempting to rush in, and being forced back by an array of hostile clubs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
