hoarse

hoarse
    adj 1: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or
           emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking";
           "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful
           but husky"- Virgil Thomson [syn: {gruff}, {hoarse},
           {husky}]
    

Hoarse \Hoarse\, a. [Compar. {Hoarser}, superl. {Hoarsest}.]
   [OE. hors, also hos, has, AS. h[=a]s; akin to D. heesch, G.
   heiser, Icel. h[=a]ss, Dan. h[ae]s, Sw. hes. Cf. Prov. E.
   heazy.]
   1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when
      affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound;
      as, the hoarse raven.
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            The hoarse resounding shore.          --Dryden.
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   2. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
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53 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoarse":
      blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, coarse, cracked,
      croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, grating, gruff,
      guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, husky, inarticulate,
      indistinct, jarring, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy,
      nasal, quavering, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy,
      rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, squawking, squawky, stertorous,
      stifled, strangled, strident, stridulous, thick, throaty, tinny,
      tremulous, twangy, velar