growled
- 1Simple past and past participle of growl.
The bear growled low in its throat as we backed slowly away.
She had growled at the constant interruptions before shutting her office door.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the past tense (the dog growled) and the participle after have (it had growled all night). Most uses take no object, but growl can also take the words themselves as its object (he growled a reply). Only then does a passive open up: a warning was growled from the dark. The same form also covers a wind player's low rumble and death-growl vocals.
He growled a reply without looking up from his desk.
A warning was growled from somewhere in the dark hallway.
growled is a form of growl
growl, verb: To make a deep, throaty sound, as an angry animal does, or to give forth an angry, grumbling noise. Full entry
- Spelling
- growl → growled: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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