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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of roar.

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roar + -eth

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Examples

  • They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the water roareth so, and maketh so huge noise and so great tempest, that no man may hear other in the ship, though he cried with all the craft that he could in the highest voice that he might.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • But mine enemies shall think that THE EVIL ONE roareth over their heads.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • “On earth there is nothing greater than I: it is I who am the regulating finger of God” — thus roareth the monster.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • He would now and then think upon Shaddai, and have dread of his law upon him, and then he would speak against Diabolus with a voice as great as when a lion roareth.

    The Holy War 2001

  • After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

    Job 37. 1999

  • They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

    Jeremiah 6. 1999

  • And he tells us, that walking with God, when there is no peace with him, is like walking in a forest where and when the lion roareth, verse 8, -- when a man can have no thoughts but what are full of expectation of his immediately being torn asunder and devoured.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Thereat Karna said, 'I desire to slay in fierce fight even one enemy of mine, who roareth fiercely and is hot as fire, and of whom I am in fear!'

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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