Roared

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

  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[=e]r[=e]n. [root]112.]
     1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically:
        (a) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or
            other beast.


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                  Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
                                                    --Spenser.
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        (b) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
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                  Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief
                  Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
                                                    --Dryden.
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                  He scorned to roar under the impressions of a
                  finite anger.                     --South.
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     2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing
        vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or
        the like.
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              The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
                                                    --Milton.
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              How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
                                                    --Gay.
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     3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
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              It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
                                                    --Bp. Burnet.
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     4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers
        roared at his jokes.
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     5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a
        certain disease. See {Roaring}, 2.
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     {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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