hoarsen
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən
Verb edit
hoarsen (third-person singular simple present hoarsens, present participle hoarsening, simple past and past participle hoarsened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hoarse.
- 2009 March 19, Carol Kino, “A Trustee Who Defined an Era of Corporate Giving”, in New York Times[1]:
- A canny business strategist who tends to express himself tersely — even more so now that his voice has been hoarsened by several strokes — he has rarely consented to interviews.
Translations edit
To make or become hoarse
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