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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

... days the peace of the night was occasionally broken an hour before the dawn by the yells of an attacking force, and by the flames roaring up from bundles of shavings thrown beneath the house. But happily attacks of this kind are no longer made, save in some few remoter parts of the interior where the European governments have not ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... was heard coming over the water a terrible crashing noise, that made the banks on either side of it tremble. It was like a hurricane which comes roaring through the vain shelter of the woods, splitting and hurling away the boughs, sweeping along proudly in a huge cloud of dust, and making herds and herdsmen fly before it. "Now stretch your eyesight across the water," ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt

... him to be so gentle, neither. Though he dwells staid and silent, he is a roaring lion, that should I let slip may soon devour thee, Babet. Overweening woman, you do not know how much you and yours have wronged ...

— The Advocate • Charles Heavysege

... the day that had been reserved for the expedition to Smuggler's Notch, dawned crisp and clear, and some girls who had had dinner at Mrs. Noble's farm the night before brought back glowing reports of the venison her brother had sent her from Maine, and the roaring log fire that she built for them in the fireplace of her new dining-room. So Roberta and Madeline hurried over before chapel to ask Mary to reconsider. But she was firm in her refusal. She had waked with a headache. Besides, she had letters to write and calls ...

— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde

... he was in a wild mountain, girt round with the sea and filled with wild beasts. Then he rose and went into a valley, and there he saw a young serpent bring a young lion by the neck, and after that there passed a great lion, crying and roaring after the serpent, and a fierce battle began between them. Sir Percivale thought to help the lion, as he was the more natural beast of the twain, and he drew his sword and set his shield before him, ...

— The Book of Romance • Various

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