Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become hoarse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make hoarse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make hoarse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive To make or become
hoarse .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
hoarse + -en.
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Examples
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I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice, and roughen my character, to keep up with its puppily dancings.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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