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单词 louden
释义

loudenv.

Brit. /ˈlaʊdn/, U.S. /ˈlaʊd(ə)n/
Etymology: < loud adj. + -en suffix5.
1. intransitive. To become or grow loud or louder.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)] > increase loudness
risea1450
swell1749
loudena1848
crescendo1900
lift1912
a1848 R. W. Hamilton in Christian Sabbath (1852) xiii. 367 The birthday song of creation may well rise and louden into a new song.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1861) 505 An angry growl from the westward heavens..rolled and loudened nearer and nearer.
2. transitive. To make loud or louder. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > increase loudness
louden1891
1891 Harper's Mag. Sept. 574/2 ‘Hum!’ loudening her voice.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France I. i. iv. 236 Internecine strife ought to be hushed instead of being loudened.

Derivatives

ˈloudening adj. that grows louder.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > increase of loudness
rising1610
swelling1753
loudening1810
1810 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio III. 187 Groaning we start! and, at the loudening war, Ask our bewilder'd senses where we are.
1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 183 A loudening hum of voices heralded a rush of warriors into the Uhon-nukon, or cleared space, with its central tree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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