Hoarse
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
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Hoarse Quotations
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.
Cyndi Lauper
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F. L. Lucas
Hoarse Translations
hoarse in Dutch is schor, hees, rauw
hoarse in French is rauque, rugueux
hoarse in German is heiser
hoarse in Hungarian is rekedt
hoarse in Italian is rauco, scabro
hoarse in Norwegian is hes
hoarse in Spanish is ronco
hoarse in Swedish is hes, skrovlig
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