hoarse
/hɔːs/ adjective C2- Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
Comparative hoarser · Superlative hoarsest
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I’ll try and say ‘_How doth the little_—’” and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:—
“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
“I wasn’t asleep,” he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: “I heard every word you fellows were saying.”
Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.
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