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Roared

Roar \Roar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roared; p. pr. & vvb. n. Roaring.] [OE. roren, raren, AS. r[=a]rian; akin to G. r["o]hten, OHG. r?r?n. [root]112.]

  1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically:

    1. To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.

      Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
      --Spenser.

    2. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.

      Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
      --Dryden.

      He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger.
      --South.

  2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.

    The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
    --Milton.

    How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
    --Gay.

  3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

    It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
    --Bp. Burnet.

  4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.

  5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.

    Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. ``Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split.''
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40[deg] and 50[deg] north latitude.

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roared

vb. (en-past of: roar)

Usage examples of "roared".

The fetid wind, a noxious combina tion of overheating metal, grease, and the acrid stink of electricity, roared down across her body, and she an gled her face down.

On the council table, he projected scenes: palm trees crashed in the wind and waves rolled in to welcoming shores, trains roared into tunnels and out again, wild beasts roared in the forests and people worked wet clay into messy phallic symbols on spinning potters' wheels.

Ilnir roared, projecting his voice over the hubbub of voices and the hum of machinery.

The plane roared off with a speed startling to one used to wallowing helicopters.

The bike tilted to an angle and roared down the riverbank, out of the snakes' reach.

Barnstable roared in protest, jumping to his feet at his place on the opposite end of the dais.

Con roared her name with a most reas suring possessiveness in his tone.

I lit it and jumped back, and it roared up into silver flames like a nova.

The mate roared with laughter at my unhandiness, encouraging the other men of his watch to join him.

Helva roared, pouring on volume with each word, with no regard for the tender structure of the human ear.

Governor Lawson tipped his chair back and roared with laughter: an exercise he broke off abruptly to glare with an intensity akin to hatred at Darrow and the wraith-like Steve Hawkins.

She roared out repetitions in other dialects, continuing to broadcast mentally as she shouted at the other children.

Flimflam roared, swiveling about to the ladrones and hitters in the room.

Zahid roared above the wind, waving about both hands, making the torchlight stab about the darkness.

FOR THE LOVE OF HEAVEN, ANSWER ME, Thian roared, catching the gestalt of the Washington's generators to reachhis targets.