Growl

Quick meaning: Growl is a noun meaning A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

Meaning

A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A similar sound made by a human.
2. (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
3. (by extension) An aggressive grumbling.
4. (jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
5. (by extension) Death growl
6. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
7. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.

Example Sentences

Riding down the main thoroughfare, the growl of his stomach taints the soothing jazz playing on the radio.

A deep growl was the answer I received, and the bear, for such it was, walked quickly away in the same direction whence he had come.

Hardly anything is more intensely disagreeable to one walking along the street, than to hear near his path a low savage growl—the expression of a surly dog's opinion and purpose.

The growl effect comes from fitting a small straight mute—a cornet mute for trumpet and a trumpet mute for trombone—covering the instrument's bell with a rubber plunger, the kind used by plumbers, and moving it in and out to affect the tone.

Word Forms

• growls
• growling
• growled
• groil
• groul

Synonyms for growl

Depending on context, synonyms include gnar, gnarl, gurl, snarl, grumble, rumble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grumble, rumble, gnar, undergrowl, bellow, snarl.

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