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roaring 音标拼音: [r'ɔrɪŋ] n. 吼声,咆哮,怒吼
a. 风哮雨嚎的,咆哮的,轰鸣的喧哗的,狂暴的 吼声,咆哮,怒吼风哮雨嚎的,咆哮的,轰鸣的喧哗的,狂暴的 roaring adv 1: extremely; " roaring drunk" adj 1: very lively and profitable; " flourishing businesses"; " a palmy time for stockbrokers"; " a prosperous new business"; " doing a roaring trade"; " a thriving tourist center"; " did a thriving business in orchids" [ synonym: { booming}, { flourishing}, { palmy}, { prospering}, { prosperous}, { roaring}, { thriving}] n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [ synonym: { boom}, { roar}, { roaring}, { thunder}] 2: a very loud utterance ( like the sound of an animal); " his bellow filled the hallway" [ synonym: { bellow}, { bellowing}, { holla}, { holler}, { hollering}, { hollo}, { holloa}, { roar}, { roaring}, { yowl}] Roar \ Roar\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Roared}; p. pr. & vvb. n. { Roaring}.] [ OE. roren, raren, AS. r[= a] rian; akin to G. r[" o] hten, OHG. r[= e] r[= e] n. [ root] 112.] 1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: ( a) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. [ 1913 Webster] Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] ( b) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. [ 1913 Webster] Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like. [ 1913 Webster] The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. -- Gay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly. [ 1913 Webster] It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. -- Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See { Roaring}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] { Roaring boy}, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth' s reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. " Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." -- Beau. & Fl. { Roaring forties} ( Naut.), a sailor' s name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40[ deg] and 50[ deg] north latitude. [ 1913 Webster]
Roaring \ Roar" ing\, n. 1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Far.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See { Roar}, v. i., 5. [ 1913 Webster] 66 Moby Thesaurus words for " roaring": abandoned, amok, bellowing, berserk, blaring, booming, cannonading, carried away, delirious, demoniac, distracted, earsplitting, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, hog- wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, orgasmic, orgiastic, pealing, piercing, possessed, prospering, prosperous, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, robust, rolling, rumbling, running mad, stentorian, stentorious, storming, thrifty, thriving, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, transported, uncontrollable, violent, volleying, wild, wild- eyed, wild- looking
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