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• present participle of roar.

roaring

American  

[rawr-ing, rohr-] / ˈrɔr ɪŋ, ˈroʊr- /

noun

1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.

2. a loud, deep cry or sound or a series of such sounds.

3. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, caused by respiratory obstruction or vocal cord paralysis, and characterized by loud or rough breathing sounds.

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adjective

1. making or causing a roar, as an animal or thunder.

2. brisk or highly successful, as trade.

   He did a roaring business selling watches to tourists.

3. characterized by noisy, disorderly behavior; boisterous; riotous.

   roaring revelry.

4. complete; utter; out-and-out.

   a roaring idiot; a roaring success.

adverb

1. very; extremely.

   roaring drunk.

roaring British  

/ ˈrɔːrɪŋ /

adjective

1. informal very brisk and profitable (esp in the phrase a roaring trade )

2. the period of the Australian goldrushes

3. derogatory (intensifier)

   a roaring communist

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adverb

1. noisily or boisterously (esp in the phrase roaring drunk )

noun

1. a loud prolonged cry

2. a debilitating breathing defect of horses characterized by rasping sounds with each breath: caused by inflammation of the respiratory tract or obstruction of the larynx Compare whistling

Other Word Forms

• roaringly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of roaring

before 1000; Middle English roryng (noun, adj.), Old English rarung (noun). See roar, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Related Words

• boisterous
• booming
• clamorous
• crashing
• deafening
• earsplitting
• raucous
• resounding
• ringing
• rowdy
• thundering
• tumultuous
• turbulent