Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being hoarse; harshness or roughness of voice or sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
hoarse ; of having a dry harshvoice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a throaty harshness
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Examples
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“There are a range of other features such as hoarseness, roughness, breathiness of the voice, which have to do with the airflow over the vocal chords, and these all combine to make our voices distinctive.”
Woman Unable To Recognise Voices Gives New Insights Into The Human Brain | Impact Lab 2010
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But she grew pale, her eyes became peculiarly brilliant, her voice took a lower key, and lost a kind of hoarseness it had in the past.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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But she grew pale, her eyes became peculiarly brilliant, her voice took a lower key, and lost a kind of hoarseness it had in the past.
Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 5. Gilbert Parker 1897
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But she grew pale, her eyes became peculiarly brilliant, her voice took a lower key, and lost a kind of hoarseness it had in the past.
Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Side effects of VNS therapy are usually mild, such as hoarseness, coughing and tickling in the throat and usually diminish over time.
Berks county news 2010
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Some were outraged by his "hoarseness" during a recent radio interview that followed a night of socialising with party colleagues.
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Some were outraged by his "hoarseness" during a recent radio interview that followed a night of socialising with party colleagues.
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- It appears that this flu produces a distinctive "hoarseness" in many victims.
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE 2009
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The symptoms are the same as normal flu, although it has been discovered that swine flu causes a distinctive "hoarseness" in many victims.
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The symptoms are the same as normal flu, although it has been discovered that swine flu causes a distinctive "hoarseness" in many victims.
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