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Hoarse
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What's The Definition Of Hoarse?
[adj] deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hoarse: cacophonic | cacophonous | gruff | husky Related Terms | Find terms related to Hoarse: blurred | brassy | brazen | breathy | choked | choking | coarse | cracked | croaking | croaky | drawling | drawly | dry | dysphonic | grating | gruff | guttural | harsh | harsh-sounding | hawking | husky | inarticulate | indistinct | jarring | lisping | metallic | mispronounced | muzzy | nasal | quavering | ragged | rasping | raucid | raucous | rough | roupy | rude | shaking | shaky | snuffling | squawking | squawky | stertorous | stifled | strangled | strident | stridulous | thick | throaty | tinny | tremulous | twangy | velar See Also | Hoarse In Webster's Dictionary \Hoarse\, a. [Compar. {Hoarser}, superl. {Hoarsest}.]
[OE. hors, also hos, has, AS. h[=a]s; akin to D. heesch, G.
heiser, Icel. h[=a]ss, Dan. h[ae]s, Sw. hes. Cf. Prov. E.
heazy.]
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. --Dryden.
2. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
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