hoarse
hoarse
Definition
hoarse (hôrs)
hoarse′ly adverb
hoarse′·ness noun
hoarse
Synonyms
hoarse
modif.
Antonyms
hoarse
Usage Examples
Preposition: with
- singing: Hoarse with singing: a girl comes to the garden to pick a rose.
- emotion: A doctor, voice hoarse with emotion, told us that 300 wounded had come in.
Modifies a noun
- whisper: The sufferer was wide awake, and I heard my name in a hoarse whisper.
- cry: Then, with a faint, hoarse cry, I forced myself across the scullery.
- voice: Margo replies - in a very hoarse voice - that she'll get even with Smith in her own way.
- croak: Worse still when they tried to bark at us nothing happened except for a tiny hoarse croak.
- shout: He warned the others with a hoarse shout before quaffing a potion of bug repellent.
- vocal: The hoarse, foot stomping vocal broke across the vast Bickershaw arena and turned it into a beer parlor.
Modifying Another Word
- little: We all had a great time, but I say this about Geoff Jones in particular, who was probably a little hoarse afterward!
- very: Margo replies - in a very hoarse voice - that she'll get even with Smith in her own way.
- quite: By now we were all very cold and I was quite hoarse from talking to people and organizing photographers and such like.
- slightly: Carter put his slightly hoarse voice to good use.
- pretty: However, it was really fun and I'm now pretty hoarse from all the yelling.
- home: I went home hoarse from cheering and red-eyed from weeping.
Used with adjective complement
- go: Anyway went hoarse cheering for UEA, Grace was out shouting the Hallam Poly drum.
- grow: The crowds had grown hoarse by this time and were relieving their shouts of " Down with Mosley!
- sound: His throat was clogged, making him sound hoarse.
- get: The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!
- become: It can cry all day and never become hoarse.
