hoarse

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  1. adjective Rough or grating in sound: a hoarse cry.
  2. adjective Having or characterized by a husky, grating voice: yelled ourselves hoarse.

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  • She made it inside before anything came down, but the first drops started plopping into the dust just as she closed the door. —  Owlsight
  • Baris called a hoarse order and the ramp began to lower. —  Beast Master's Circus
  • His hoarse, agonized scream mingled with the screams of his brother. —  War of the Twins
  • The peddler is almost hoarse, his voice is so loud and ragged. —  The Magic Engineer
  • "The kender!" came hoarse, angry shouts. —  The Soulforge
 

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shrill ·  husky ·  guttural ·  harsh ·  raucous ·  breathless ·  plaintive ·  audible ·  frantic ·  inarticulate ·  rasp ·  tremulous
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English hos, hors, from Old English hās, *hārs.

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  1. Early modern English also horse; from Middle English hoors, hors (with intrusive r), hoos, hos, earlier has, from Anglo-Saxon hās = Middle Dutch heesch, and heersch, haersch (with intrusive r), now heesch = Middle Low German hēsch, heisch, Low German heesch = Old High German heis, heisi, Middle High German heis, heise, also with adjective formative -er, heiser, German heiser = Icelandic hāss (for reg. *heiss) = Swedish hes = Danish hæs, hoarse, rough. The D. termination -sch, and perhaps the intrusive r in English and D., maybe due to confusion with harsh, q. v., in Middle English harsk, often without its r, hash.
  2. from hoarse, adjective
 

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