roar
rawr
- n a deep prolonged loud noise
- n a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
- n the sound made by a lion
- v make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
The water roared down the chute - v utter words loudly and forcefully
`Get out of here,' he roared - v emit long loud cries
- v act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way
desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town"-R.A.Billington - v make a loud noise, as of animal
- v laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
- Meena called the women of Afghanistan sleeping lions, pledging that one day they would awake and roar.
- At 78, John Llewellyn Lewis still has a thick, flowing mane and a fearsome roar.
- Roar after roar ran through the crowd, larger than in all the other arenas combined, and the grand swelling of emotion in a people not usually demonstrative touched even foreign .