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Roaring   /rˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
Roaring

adjective
1.
Very lively and profitable.  Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thriving.  "A palmy time for stockbrokers" , "A prosperous new business" , "Doing a roaring trade" , "A thriving tourist center" , "Did a thriving business in orchids"
noun
1.
A deep prolonged loud noise.  Synonyms: boom, roar, thunder.
2.
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).  Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, yowl.
adverb
1.
Extremely.


Roar

verb
(past & past part. roared; pres. part. roaring)
1.
Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles.  Synonym: howl.  "The water roared down the chute"
2.
Utter words loudly and forcefully.  Synonym: thunder.
3.
Emit long loud cries.  Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl.  "Howl with sorrow"
4.
Act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way.
5.
Make a loud noise, as of animal.  Synonym: bellow.
6.
Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily.  Synonym: howl.



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"Roaring" Quotes from Famous Books



... TURBONADA. A roaring squall, or short hurricane, of frequent occurrence in the Pacific Ocean [a mimo-phonetic term ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... described by the pen of this same person, in the thirty second psalm; and description is couched in the first person, as what himself had experienced. "When I kept silence, my bones waxed old by reason of my roaring all the days long. For day and night thy hand was heavy on me; my moisture is turned into the drought of summer." There is a strong probability that his feeling on this occasion, before he confessed his sin, and obtained a sense of ...
— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee
... haunts. Mortals who were anxious to know the powerful divinity ruling these solitudes had to observe the life of his kingdom, {49} and to guess the god's nature from the phenomena through which he manifested his power. Seeing the creeks descend in noisy foaming cascades, or hearing the roaring of steers in the uplands and the strange sounds of the wind-beaten forests, the Thracians thought they heard the voice and the calls of the lord of that empire, and imagined a god who was fond of extravagant leaps and of wild roaming over the ...
— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont
... they were sitting before a roaring fire, quite content even though there was a suggestion of amazed ghosts lurking in the hallway behind them. No doubt old man Grimes and his wife, if they awoke in the course of the night, groaned deep prayers in response to the ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... emitted from a hundred thousand bottles that lay sown broadcast over the land; and the thunder of the cradles ceased, and the accordions came out all over five miles of gold mine. Their gentler strains lasted till the sun left the sky; then, just at dusk, came a tremendous discharge of musketry roaring, rattling, and re-echoing among the rocks. This was tens of thousands of diggers discharging their muskets and revolvers previous to reloading them for the night; for, calm as the sun had set to the music ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade


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