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comparative hoarser, superlative hoarsest
Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc. quotations examples
I am old and my voice is hoarse […]
1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
third-person singular simple present hoarses, present participle hoarsing, simple past and past participle hoarsed
(uncommon) To utter hoarsely; to croak. quotations examples
"[...] Madame! Is—that—your—horse?!""Ain't no horse!" she hoarses. "Thassa thuruly bred Great Dane!" The thuruly bred Great Dane's balls shine like big , bald onions as he squeezes to deposit 4 1⁄2 pounds of vitamin - enriched apcray near the lamp-post.
1980, Leo Rosten, King Silky!, HarperCollins Children's Books
"See anything, mum?" she hoarsed. “No—I think it's lower down. Go back to bed, Jane. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. Someone's forgotten something, that's all.” She wanted to get rid of Jane without knowing exactly.
2022 August 1, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Back to Victoria, DigiCat
"Helene," he croaked, reaching out his arms—his voice tensed with the infinity of his desire. "Back," she iced. And then, "Why have you come here?" she hoarsed. "What business have you here?"
2022 September 16, Stephen Leacock, Further Foolishness, DigiCat
plural hoarses
Obsolete spelling of horse quotations examples
The 15. 3 mo. 1668 - An act maid in a Towne Meting to provent hoarses and meares from doinge damage, as foloeth. All such hoarses and meares, as comonly kepes about the towne, or in the towne stretes, or comonly doth goe in to the towne neck, […]
1668, act, quoted in 1912, Sandwich and Bourne, Colony and Town Records, page 20
, quoted in 1934, The North Carolina Historical Review (and also in 1981, Doris Cline Ward, Charles D. Biddix, The Heritage of Old Buncombe County)