Crossword clues for roaring
roaring
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roaring \Roar"ing\, n.
A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.
(Far.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.
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.]
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To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically:
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To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
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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.
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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.
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To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
--Bp. Burnet. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., present participle adjective from roar (v.). Used of periods of years characterized by noisy revelry, especially roaring twenties (1930); but also, in Britain, roaring fifties (1892). Roaring forties in reference to exceptional rough seas between latitudes 40 and 50 south, is attested from 1841.
Wiktionary
very; intensively; extremely. n. 1 A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar. 2 An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion. v
(present participle of roar English)
WordNet
adj. very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thriving]
loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss [syn: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery]
a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, yowl]
adv. extremely; "roaring drunk"
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "roaring".
The steam in the headers filled the space with roaring heat and the sound of the turbines whining at thirty-six hundred RPM aft of maneuvering was the sweetest sound Vaughn could remember hearing.
Robert succeeded in soothing him -- and the poor old lion is very quiet on the whole, roaring softly, to beguile the time, in Latin alcaics against his wife and Louis Napoleon.
He was pulled out of bed and into empty space, and for a moment he heard a rhythmic roaring and saw the twilight amorphousness of the vague abysses seething around him.
But who sent the moth and allowed it, in the midst of a late-summer thunderstorm roaring like a high school principal, to make me fall in love with the drum my mother had promised me and develop my aptitude for it?
We began by sitting down in front of a roaring fire, and for half an hour we did nothing but eat oysters, which were opened in our presence by a clever waiter, who took care not to lose a drop of the fluid.
The captain had already got one foot in the wherry, and the watermen, equally alarmed with himself, were trying to push off, when the invaders came up, and, springing into the boat, took possession of the oars, sending Bludder floundering into the Thames, where he sunk up to the shoulders, and stuck fast in the mud, roaring piteously for help.
He tried to cock his left fist, his ears roaring with the heightened pulse of the bloodsong Bogie sang.
And then Boyne came out, like a roaring flame, the bread knife whistling about his head.
I saw old Bunger scooting for the exit, and I heered Mike roaring, lunging against his rope.
As they arrived in front of the church, Hank Busche came around the corner behind the roaring lawn mower, and Guilo had to pause to look him over.
She squeezed his arm, and laughed gaily as they all trooped through to the blue drawing-room and clustered round attentively while Centaine settled herself in her customary place on the long sofa facing the roaring log fire in the Adam fireplace.
Fresh from his fastnesses Wholesome and spacious, The North Wind, the mad huntsman, Halloas on his white hounds Over the grey, roaring Reaches and ridges, The forest of ocean, The chace of the world.
De Keradel had turned, facing the sacrifices, roaring out the chant, black maul raised high, the symbols on black belt and cincture dancing like quicksilver.
There was nothing to be done, and I could not help roaring with laughter.
Bear chased Cygnet all over the sky, roaring fire at it, protecting Dancer.