roar

About 3.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
2. verb To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

   The audience roared at his jokes.

3. verb Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.

   The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.

4. verb Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
5. verb To proceed vigorously.
6. verb To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
7. verb To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
8. verb To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.

Similar words

ululate hollering holler yowl bellow bellowing yowling howl hollo holla

Often followed by

of and that from in with like as was

Word family

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