Hoarse

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The hoarse resounding shore.          --Dryden.
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     2. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoarse":
     blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, coarse, cracked,
     croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, grating, gruff,
     guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, husky, inarticulate,
     indistinct, jarring, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy,
     nasal, quavering, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy,
     rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, squawking, squawky, stertorous,
     stifled, strangled, strident, stridulous, thick, throaty, tinny,
     tremulous, twangy, velar