Growl

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Growl [  ɡrawl  ] 

Growl pronunciation


1. Noun: in a low, rough and angry voice.

2. Verb: to make a low, rough sound, usually in anger.


““James? Where are you? What happened?” In her normal voice, this might have come out sounding shrewish—a mother scolding her wayward eleven-year-old who’s come late to the supper-table yet again—but now it emerges in a kind of horrified growl.”

The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates.(Stephen King).



Statements using Growl:

*His growl turned to a purr.

*No angry growl was heard.

*I was sleeping very well, but a growl woke me up.

*Josue: - I don't know what is happening, the dog is scared by a loud growl-.

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