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adj. Rough or grating in sound: a hoarse cry.

adj. Having or characterized by a husky, grating voice: yelled ourselves hoarse.

adj. Afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice.

adj. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound.

adj. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.

Deep and rough or harsh to the ear; discordant; raucous.

Having a deep and harsh or grating voice; uttering low raucous sounds: as, to be hoarse from a cold.

To render hoarse: as, he was all hoarsed up.

adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion

"His voice hoarse from a brewing head cold, he has gone from Oregon to Washington to California to Nevada."

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harsh   

harsh    grating    discordant   

Corse    Force    Morse    Norse    bourse    coarse    corse    course    divorce    endorse   

shrill    husky    guttural    harsh    raucous    breathless    plaintive    audible    frantic    inarticulate