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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
growl
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dog growls (=makes a long deep angry sound)
▪ The dog growled at me as I walked towards it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ""Come over here and say that,'' he growled.
▪ "Leave that alone," she growled.
▪ He walked into the house, growled a few words at my mother and then went upstairs to bed.
▪ Their dog growls at everyone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Barnabas dashed down the stairs and crouched by the mail slot, growling.
▪ Instead, after work my stomach was always growling.
▪ Martin, growling savagely at the yobs, daring them to interfere.
▪ The sun came and went, thunder clouds growling and swirling up the valley.
▪ The thin man complained and continued to argue but no-one took notice but Michael, who growled tersely at his cowardice.
▪ The wolves are growling right outside our walls, and the gate damn well better hold.
▪ When it got older it got real fat and started to growl at me.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Growl

Growl \Growl\ (groul), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Growled (grould); p. pr. & vb. n. Growling.] [D. grollen to grunt, murmur, be angry; akin to G. grollen to be angry.] To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
--Gay.

Growl

Growl \Growl\, v. t. To express by growling.
--Thomson.

Growl

Growl \Growl\, n. The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
growl

1660s, from Middle English grollen "to rumble, growl" (early 15c.), from Old French grouler "to rumble," said to be from Frankish; probably ultimately of imitative origin. Related: Growled; growling. The noun is 1727, from the verb.

Wiktionary
growl

n. 1 The deep, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal; a grumbling sound. 2 The sound made by a hungry stomach. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. 2 (context transitive English) To express (something) by growling. 3 (context software English) To send a user a message via the http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Growl%20(software) software library.

WordNet
growl
  1. n. the sound of growling (as made by animals) [syn: growling]

  2. v. to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds; "he grumbled a rude response"; "Stones grumbled down the cliff" [syn: grumble, rumble]

Wikipedia
Growl (software)

Growl is a global notification system and pop-up notification implementation for the Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. Applications can use Growl to display small notifications about events which may be important to the user. This software allows users to fully control their notifications, while allowing application developers to spend less time creating notifications and Growl developers to concentrate on the usability of notifications. Growl can be used in conjunction with Apple's Notification Center that is included in recent versions of OS X (Mountain Lion 10.8 and higher).

Growl (video game)

Growl, known in Japan as , is a belt-scrolling beat-'em-up originally released for the arcades by Taito in . Set in the early 20th century, the player controls a forest ranger who must protect the local wildlife from a group of evil poachers who are driving the animals to extinction. A home version was released for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) on November 1991. It was also included in the arcade game compilation Taito Legends 2 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

Growl (album)

Growl is a 2008 album by Radioactive Man a pseudonym of Keith Tenniswood. It was his first release in five years as well as the first on his own label, Control Tower.

GROWL

GROWL is an international education network for degrowth formed by academics, practitioners, researchers and political activists. One central aim of the network is to promote collective action across initiatives related to degrowth (e.g. Transition Towns, agroecology, Solidarity economy, DIY among other "nowtopias"), in order to reduce the atomization and dispersal of initiatives that hinder their capacity to scale up and present a solid alternative to the dominant economic paradigm.

Usage examples of "growl".

With a growling stomach and uncertain optimism, he walked through the site, finding a garbage dump and a few forgotten odds and ends.

Thirty miles of grinding, growling, gravel road later, they reached Abney, a once-booming mining town that had long since withered and now had trouble remembering why it was there.

A tenuous aerogel foam bubbled and farted, rushing out into a ballooning mass as the dog lunged forward, teeth snapping, making a soft growling sound deep in its throat.

The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.

The first amtracks growled ashore at 0750 hours, just twenty minutes after sunrise.

Only during extreme stress or fury did the animalistic growl vibrate in his chest in such a way.

His hands cupped it, clenching on the rounded curves as an animalistic growl rumbled in his chest.

He skipped nimbly out of reach of each threatening female--for such is the way of apes, if they be not in one of their occasional fits of bestial rage--and he growled back at the truculent young bulls, baring his canine teeth even as they.

But no sooner were they afloat than a savage growling from one of the apes directly ahead of him in the dugout attracted his attention to a shivering and cowering figure that trembled between him and the great anthropoid.

The apes of Akut, terrified by the sound, ran hither and thither, snarling and growling.

From twenty thousand savage throats rose the awful cries of battle, twenty thousand pairs of reins were loosed, and eighty thousand iron shod hoofs set the earth atremble as they thundered down upon the startled enemy, and from the heights above came the growl of the drums of The Wolf and the eerie howls of his painted horde.

Katy was uttering the mix of growl and howl that was her greeting somewhere in the dark shadows at the back of the building.

Barnacle Bill was uncharacteristically untipsy, and Maximus got into the spirit of the occasion, growling and clawing bloodthirstily but performing as tamely and willingly as a dog.

They were out on Bear Hill the whole day, beating up the bushes as if for game, scaring old crows out of their ragged nests, and in one dark glen startling a fierce-eyed, growling, bobtailed catamount, who sat spitting and looking all ready to spring at them, on the tall tree where he clung with his claws unsheathed, until a young fellow came up with a gun and shot him dead.

I itched to throw a bootjack at him, but compromised on doing a little growling myself.