Verb

(en verb)

To row; to propel with oars.

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Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

Verb

(en verb)

To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.

* Dryden

Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.

To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

The audience roared at his jokes.

Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.

* Spenser

Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.

* Milton

The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .

* Gray

How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .

(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.

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To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.

* Ford

This last action will roar thy infamy.

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To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

* Bishop Burnet

It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.

To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.