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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hoarse
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hoarse whisper
▪ Her voice came out as a hoarse whisper.
shout yourself hoarse (=shout until your throat is sore)
▪ Matthew shouted himself hoarse until he was discovered.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
voice
▪ He had brown wavy hair and a hoarse voice that was in the process of breaking.
▪ Her hoarse voice had been toned down, almost hushed, while she questioned Ada.
▪ He demanded twice, in an extremely hoarse voice, where I was from.
▪ I said in a hoarse voice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He had shouted himself hoarse in his frenzied efforts to attract attention.
▪ His voice dropped to a hoarse whisper.
▪ You sound very hoarse. Do you have a cold?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From below there were the hoarse confused cries of the mob.
▪ His voice was hoarse as a raven's croak.
▪ I have imagined him bravely making himself walk down the steps and face the hoarse shouts and attacks of the bigger boys.
▪ Rachel moved with a hoarse cry, groping blindly for support, trying to reach the sofas, shaking like a leaf.
▪ She screamed, a hoarse tenor noise, and fought.
▪ The Milanese cheered until they were hoarse.
▪ Yeb whispers a hoarse sorry in my ear.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoarse

Hoarse \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hoarse

late 14c., hors, earlier hos, from Old English has "hoarse," from Proto-Germanic *haisa- (cognates: Old Saxon hes, Old Norse hass, Dutch hees, Old High German heisi, German heiser "hoarse"), perhaps originally meaning "dried out, rough." The -r- is difficult to explain; it is first attested c.1400, but it may indicate an unrecorded Old English variant *hars. Related: Hoarsely; hoarseness.

Wiktionary
hoarse

a. Afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice.

WordNet
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 [syn: gruff, husky]

Wikipedia
Hoarse (album)

Hoarse is a live album by the band 16 Horsepower. It was released in Europe in 2000 in digipak with Glitterhouse Records. In March 2001 it was released regularly in jewel case with Glitterhouse. An American version was released in 2001 on Checkered Past records. Another American version was finally re-released on Alternative Tentacles in 2006.

The song is a live album with most of the songs featured recorded at their show on May 5, 1998, at the Bluebird Theatre in Denver, except for "Horse Head" (recorded on March 4, 1998 at the Bluebird) and "Fire Spirit" (recorded at Bataclan, Paris, on October 21, 1998) which features Bertrand Cantat.

On the first edition of the European release, Hoarse had an incorrect track listing. Only ten tracks were listed, whereas there had been eleven; the song "Black Lung" wasn't shown. The track order was also erroneous and the cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Risin'" was incorrectly credited to 16 Horsepower. With the next European release in 2001, the errors were corrected.

Usage examples of "hoarse".

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.

During the last week or two Ward had obviously changed much, abandoning his attempts at affability and speaking only in hoarse but oddly repellent whispers on the few occasions that he ventured forth.

Gaelic song, in the Minor Key, deep and throbbing and full of patient despair and ambitionless longing-he had the Irish fiddle sound in it, the hoarse dark harmony of the lower strings played together in a plea that sounded more purely human than any sound made by child, man or woman.

Shahin was blindfolding the camels as they lurched against him, crying with their hoarse, braying voices.

Letting out a hoarse cry as he hit the hard ground, Buel lost his grip.

The detective extended his hand with a weary and somewhat fatherly manner, and spoke in a hoarse, emphysematous whisper.

All were speaking with horrible goitrous voices as if they had cleft palates, and the husband was hoarse with fury.

Sister Haka demanded in her hoarse voice, dark and cruel as a bird of prey.

Realizing that he, himself, was a man who had aided in plans of crime, Luskin uttered a hoarse scream and leaped to the door.

They were moving past, looking now at Lee and Longstreet, and they began to cheer, exhausted and hoarse, but the muskets were held high, the hats rose up, and they moved forward to the fight.

A hoarse mozo would bawl out something to an acquaintance in the ranks, or a woman would shriek suddenly the word Adios!

It was exceedingly like Peter,-- Only its voice was hollow and hoarse-- It had a queerish look of course-- Its dress too was a little neater.

Then Ripa became enthusiastic and chimed in with his hoarse old voice.

The populous heronry in Fresh Pond meadows has wellnigh broken up, but still a pair or two haunt the old home, as the gypsies of Ellangowan their ruined huts, and every evening fly over us riverwards, clearing their throats with a hoarse hawk as they go, and, in cloudy weather.

Arab slavers, the hoarse shouts of the ruga ruga, and the terrified screams of the people again filled her mind.