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say it: rawr
roar is a verb and noun meaning "make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles". It carries 9 recorded senses.
make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
“The wind was howling in the trees”
“The water roared down the chute”
utter words loudly and forcefully
“`Get out of here,' he roared”
act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way
“desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town”
the sound made by a lion
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.