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Meanings of roar in English

Portuguese
urro
Catalan
rugit

A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

      urro
      Portuguese
      ribombo
      Spanish
      trueno

      A deep prolonged loud noise.

            ribombo
            Portuguese
            rugir
            Catalan
            ulular
            Spanish
            gemir

            Emit long loud cries.

                  rugir
                  Usage of roar in English
                  1
                  May be seen; roar; will be appointed; have flown; has been recommended.
                  Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consis...
                  2
                  We'd hear that bullish roar across the school fields behind our house.
                  The Irish Times
                  3
                  Over the roar, she didn't think Amos heard Fayez say, All right.
                  Cibola Burn
                  4
                  The roar of escaping gas was heard in Munroville, five miles distant.
                  Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
                  5
                  I heard the roar of the guns when out in the hills.
                  The King's Arrow: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists
                  6
                  A few minutes later Kin heard the machine's roar stutter and stop.
                  Strata
                  7
                  Met the resistance and conquered it; gradually the snapping roar died away.
                  Tarrano the Conqueror
                  8
                  The hum of the machines was like the roar in a flour-mill.
                  The Desert of Wheat
                  9
                  Somewhere in the distance, they heard the roar of a large animal.
                  Jurassic Park
                  10
                  A moment later she heard Patrick roar with mixed laughter and pain.
                  IT
                  11
                  The roar of the rifles drowned even the noise of the artillery.
                  The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
                  12
                  The storm was coming in earnest now; I could hear its roar.
                  Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
                  13
                  The roar of the cannon shook the cottage for the second time.
                  The New Magdalen
                  14
                  I heard the roar of the death-wave far out in that sea.
                  The Thing from the Lake
                  15
                  And in the north the ominous murmur had become a rhythmic roar.
                  Then I'll Come Back to You
                  16
                  The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.
                  Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
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