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HOARSE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
Example:
makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)
Derivation:
hoarseness (a throaty harshness)
Context examples:
“Ben Gunn,” he answered, and his voice sounded hoarse and awkward, like a rusty lock.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Patients develop lipogranulomas in the skin and internal organs, edema and pain in the joints and a hoarse voice.
(Farber Lipogranulomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Miss Murdstone gave a hoarse chuckle.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I observed he was hoarse on Thursday night.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
His voice sounded hoarse and unreal, and he had spoken with apparent effort.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"Now sir!" he shouted, hoarse with excitement.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"What is that way?" asked Van Helsing in a hoarse voice.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And touching Miss Bates, who at that moment passed near—“Miss Bates, are you mad, to let your niece sing herself hoarse in this manner?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His voice was hoarse; his look that of a man who is just about to burst an insufferable bond and plunge headlong into wild license.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I tried to scream and was vaguely aware of some hoarse croak which was my own voice, but distant and detached from myself.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
