hoarseness

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hoarse

(hôrs)

adj. hoars·er, hoars·est

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

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

[Middle English hos, hors, from Old English hās, *hārs.]

hoarse′ly adv.

hoarse′ness n.

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Noun

hoarseness - a throaty harshness

gruffness, huskiness

harshness, roughness - the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

Translations

بُحَّة في الصَّوْت

chrapot

hæshed

hæsi

chripot

hoarseness

[ˈhɔːsnɪs] N (Med) → ronquera f; (= hoarse quality) → ronquedad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hoarseness

[ˈhɔː^rsnɪs] n [voice] → enrouement m
Hoarseness is very common in the winter season → L'enrouement est très fréquent en hiver.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hoarseness

n (of person) → Heiserkeit f; the hoarseness of his voice → seine heisere Stimme

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hoarseness

[ˈhɔːsnɪs] n → raucedine f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

hoarse

(hoːs) adjective

1. (of voices, shouts etc) rough; harsh. a hoarse cry; His voice sounds hoarse.

2. having a hoarse voice, usually because one has a cold or cough, or because one has been shouting. You sound hoarse – have you a cold?; The spectators shouted themselves hoarse.

ˈhoarseness noun

hoarse·ness

n. ronquera, manifestación en la voz de una afección de la laringe.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

hoarseness

n ronquera

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The doctor's friend was in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, red-facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy; the doctor in the comparative--hoarser, puffier, more red-faced, more all-fourey, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier.

Peace.' With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, red- facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.

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He shouted with increasing hoarseness, "The governor, the governor!" This excess lasted fully an hour, during which time he was in a burning fever.

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"You may be sure, Madame Leonore," I interjected, noticing the hoarseness of my voice, "that you at any rate are talked about a lot at sea."

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"Rose," he called with a soft hoarseness, "I want to talk to you."

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At this Little John cleared his throat and, after a word or two about a certain hoarseness that troubled him, sang thus:

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The raven, in his little basket at his master's back, hearing this frequent mention of his name in a tone of exultation, expressed his sympathy by crowing like a cock, and afterwards running over his various phrases of speech with such rapidity, and in so many varieties of hoarseness, that they sounded like the murmurs of a crowd of people.

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The whole bulk of the fog teemed with such taunts, uttered in tones of universal hoarseness. All the while, the steamer's lights moved spectrally a very little, as she lay- to, waiting the upshot of whatever accident had happened.

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Fyne had told me the truth, Flora said brusquely with an unexpected hoarseness of tone.

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What?" and the strained pitch of the other's hoarseness. "In a lump .

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This compares with 2.7 per cent risk for hoarseness alone.

Persistent sore throat could be warning for larynx cancer

When the readings were compared against a control group of 3,559 patients, the researchers found a significant link between recurrent hoarseness and the dreaded disease.