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Roar   /rɔr/   Listen
Roar

noun
1.
A deep prolonged loud noise.  Synonyms: boom, roaring, thunder.
2.
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).  Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roaring, yowl.
3.
The sound made by a lion.
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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"Roar" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the platform crowded with friends, luggage, and officials. Upon the tumult the great electric lamps threw their cold ugly light. The roar and whistling of the trains filled the vast station. Diana, meanwhile, sat motionless in her corner, looking out, ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... there on horseback, with another saddled horse beside him. He was drenched through, but steaming with sweat as if he had ridden long and hard. Shouting above the roar of the ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... mangled by Satwata with long shafts and calf-tooth-headed arrows and broad-headed arrows and Anjalikas and razor-faced arrows and crescent-shaped ones fled away, with blood flowing down their bodies, and themselves ejecting urine and excreta and uttering loud and diverse cries, deep as the roar of clouds. And some amongst the others wandered, and some limped, and some fell down, and some became pale and cheerless. Thus afflicted by Yuyudhana, with shafts that resembled the sun or fire, that elephant division fled away in all directions. After that elephant division was ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... came alongside, that brief encounter was at an end, and one of his corsairs was aloft, hacking from the mainmast the standard of Spain and the wooden crucifix that was nailed below it. A moment later and to a thundering roar of "Al-hamdolliah!" the green crescent floated ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... Gymnase arrests the observer's notice, where Bouffe has so long displayed his comic powers, which certainly in my recollection have never been surpassed, and I doubt if they ever have been equalled; there is ever a chasteness in his acting, from which he never departs, and keeps the audience in a roar of laughter without ever having ...
— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve


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