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Barking vs Roaring - What's the difference?

barking | roaring |

As a proper noun barking

is a town in london.

As an adjective roaring is

very; intensively; extremely.

As a verb roaring is

.

As a noun roaring is

a loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.

barking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * barking dogs seldom bite

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Who or that barks or bark.
    • barking dogs
  • (British slang) Short for barking mad.
    • He's going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking !

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to bark .
    • Loud barking could be heard from the dog pound.

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    roaring

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Very; intensively; extremely.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
  • Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
  • An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.