Hoarse
adjective
Having a rough, scratchy voice.
After shouting at the concert, Jane's voice was hoarse.
Often appears as...
- hoarse with
- hoarse voice
adjective
Having a rough, scratchy voice.
After shouting at the concert, Jane's voice was hoarse.
Often appears as...
- hoarse with
- hoarse voice
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Pro Tip 1/3Voice Strain
Used to describe someone's voice when it sounds rough due to overuse or illness, such as shouting or a cold.
His voice was hoarse from cheering on his team all night.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional State
'Hoarse' can imply strong emotion, like anger or desperation, that affects one's voice.
She was hoarse from pleading for her lost puppy.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Change
Indicates a temporary condition of the voice, not a permanent trait.
After recovering from laryngitis, her hoarse voice returned to normal.
Pro Tip 1/3Voice Strain
Used to describe someone's voice when it sounds rough due to overuse or illness, such as shouting or a cold.
His voice was hoarse from cheering on his team all night.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional State
'Hoarse' can imply strong emotion, like anger or desperation, that affects one's voice.
She was hoarse from pleading for her lost puppy.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Change
Indicates a temporary condition of the voice, not a permanent trait.
After recovering from laryngitis, her hoarse voice returned to normal.
Pro Tip 1/3Voice Strain
Used to describe someone's voice when it sounds rough due to overuse or illness, such as shouting or a cold.
His voice was hoarse from cheering on his team all night.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional State
'Hoarse' can imply strong emotion, like anger or desperation, that affects one's voice.
She was hoarse from pleading for her lost puppy.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Change
Indicates a temporary condition of the voice, not a permanent trait.
After recovering from laryngitis, her hoarse voice returned to normal.
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What kids can teach...
I tripped over my own two feet. I blacked out and woke up with a big cut on my foot from broken pieces of glass, eyes swollen from crying and a voice so hoarse that I'd most likely been wailing. I don't have much recollection of what actually happened, but I remember feeling frustrated, sad and afraid.
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
not sure why I've normally got a very sensitive nose you can you smell it figures nope so hoarse are not obviously not giving up on this but I think you'll be lucky to get a look in here I'm just gonna shift forward slightly
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What kids can teach...
I tripped over my own two feet. I blacked out and woke up with a big cut on my foot from broken pieces of glass, eyes swollen from crying and a voice so hoarse that I'd most likely been wailing. I don't have much recollection of what actually happened, but I remember feeling frustrated, sad and afraid.
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
not sure why I've normally got a very sensitive nose you can you smell it figures nope so hoarse are not obviously not giving up on this but I think you'll be lucky to get a look in here I'm just gonna shift forward slightly
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Quote examples
Lzzy Hale
American Musician
Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.
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Trevor Noah
South African Comedian
During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.
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Donny Osmond
American Musician
When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
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Rituparna Sengupta
Indian Actress
Begum Jaan' was such a very different zone for me. After the filming was complete, I got immersed in voice modulation. I had to shout my lungs out into the microphone and then dub for it to get that hoarseness in my voice.
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Andrae Crouch
American Musician
Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.
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Cyndi Lauper
American Musician
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.
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F. L. Lucas
English Critic
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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Carole King
American Songwriter
I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.
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John Steinbeck
American Author
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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Sai Pallavi
Indian Actress
I was holding my mum's hands and praying. Will people accept me with my pimples and hoarse voice?
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Lzzy Hale
American Musician
Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.
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Trevor Noah
South African Comedian
During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.
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Donny Osmond
American Musician
When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
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Rituparna Sengupta
Indian Actress
Begum Jaan' was such a very different zone for me. After the filming was complete, I got immersed in voice modulation. I had to shout my lungs out into the microphone and then dub for it to get that hoarseness in my voice.
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Andrae Crouch
American Musician
Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.
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Cyndi Lauper
American Musician
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.
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F. L. Lucas
English Critic
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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Carole King
American Songwriter
I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.
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John Steinbeck
American Author
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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Sai Pallavi
Indian Actress
I was holding my mum's hands and praying. Will people accept me with my pimples and hoarse voice?
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