hoarse
/hɔːs/ verb C2- To utter hoarsely; to croak.
He/she/it hoarses · Past hoarsed · Past participle hoarsed · -ing form hoarsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- hoarse
- He/she/it
- hoarses
- Past
- hoarsed
- Past participle
- hoarsed
- -ing form
- hoarsing
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“So, so,” said he, in a hoarse and choking voice, to Danglars, “this, then, I suppose, is a part of the trick you were concerting yesterday?
“Tell them,” said Morrel in a hoarse voice, “tell them that I am her betrothed.
She lay on the kitchen sofa feverish and restless, while her hoarse breathing could be heard all over the house.
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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