Definitions for growls

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Spelling: [groul]

IPA: /graʊl/

Growls is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in growls (glorsw).

Definitions for growls

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 growls

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

Examples for growls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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