Roar
- n. A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
- v. i. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
- v. i. To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
- v. i. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
- v. i. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
- v. i. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- v. i. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
- v. i. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
- v. t. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- n. The sound of roaring.
- 1n. 1 A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
- 1v. i. 1 To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.