| 单词 | hoarse |
| 释义 | hoarse (once / 431 pages) adj A hoarse voice is deep and rough and kind of hard to make out. People get hoarse when they're sick, or when they are calling in sick to work. If you're supposed to perform in a play tonight, you'd better hope you don't get hoarse: a hoarse voice doesn't sound the way it should. It's scratchy, gruff, and hard to understand. Sometimes people get hoarse from talking too much. Inhaling smoke can make you hoarse too. On the other hand, some people have raspy, husky, rough-sounding voices that sound hoarse all the time. You could ask them, "Are you hoarse?" They might say, "Nah, I always sound like this." WORD FAMILYhoarse: hoarsely, hoarseness, hoarser, hoarsest USAGE EXAMPLES“Work your jab,” a man says in a hoarse whisper. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Vocally, he’s graduated from loud, fast, and hoarse. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) A kingdom minister is screaming himself hoarse while stamping his foot on the ground on the floor of a burnt hut. BBC(Dec 02, 2016) adj deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion hoarse cries Syn gruff, husky cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound |
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