roar
verb (used without object)
to utter a loud, deep cry or howl, as in excitement, distress, or anger.
roarer
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a word derived from
roar.
Example Sentences
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And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bee County sheriff cottoned to this abstemious rip-tail roarer and made him his chief deputy in 1941.
From Time Magazine Archive
They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not his earliest designation and does not occur as a proper name in the Ṛig Veda where he is known as Rudra, a word of disputed derivation, but probably meaning the roarer.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
