Dictionary Entry
roar
roar is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
- 2intransitive verb
To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
- 3intransitive verb
To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
- 4intransitive verb
To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
- 5intransitive verb
To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- 6intransitive verb
To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
- 7intransitive verb
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
- 8transitive verb
To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- 9noun
The sound of roaring.
- 10noun
The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
- 11noun
The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
- 12noun
A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
- 13noun
A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
- 14noun
a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
"his bellow filled the hallway"
- 15noun
a deep prolonged loud noise
- 16noun
the sound made by a lion
- 17verb
laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
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- 18verb
utter words loudly and forcefully
"`Get out of here,' he roared"
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- 19verb
make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
"The wind was howling in the trees"
"The water roared down the chute"
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- 20verb
emit long loud cries
"wail in self-pity"
"howl with sorrow"
- 21verb
make a loud noise, as of animal
"The bull bellowed"
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- 22verb
act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way-R.A.Billington
"desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town"
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