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[ adjective ] deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
Examples "gruff voices" "the dog's gruff barking" "hoarse cries" "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky:- Virgil Thomson Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)Inside , as_soon_as Mr._Skopas had disclosed - in a hoarse whisper - the detective 's errand , his family gathered in a huddle , forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)The thin gray figures raised a hoarse , cawing cry like the call of a bird flock . Related terms |
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