Definitions for growl

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Spelling: [groul]
IPA: /graʊl/

Growl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in growl (glorw).

Definitions for growl

noun

  1. the act or sound of growling.
  2. Jazz. the technique of flutter-tonguing.

verb (used with object)

  1. to express by growling.

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility:
  2. to murmur or complain angrily; grumble.
  3. to rumble:
  4. Jazz. to use flutter-tonguing in playing a wind instrument.

Origin of growl

1350-1400; Middle English groule to rumble (said of the bowels); cognate with German grollen

Examples for growl

She smiles, which sounds like a small thing, but a lot of Republicans growl.

When she moves in toward him, he turns his back with a growl.

They barely raised their heads to growl, and did not answer Pierre's questions.

The head-master bowed to the bishop, and walked away, leaving Ketch on the growl.

Beyond a growl or a grunt, the dog took its punishment silently.

growl he would, from the moment the petting began till it ended.

“A growl and a shake,” the attorney, Jasper Monti, tells The Daily Beast.

The voice, too, when he spoke, was as deep and as fierce as the growl of a beast of prey.

This growl he could not suppress; nor did the man-animal resent it by giving him a blow on the head.

Students moan and growl and shriek and yawp, as if exorcising demons in a ritualistic ceremony.

Word Value for growl
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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