Meaning

6 senses
  1. (intransitive)To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

    The dog growled at me as I walked past.

    knurren

    рыча́тьryčátʹ

    гарча́тиharčáty, рича́тиryčáty

  2. (intransitive)Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.

    to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds

  3. (intransitive)To send a user a message via the Growl software library.

  4. (transitive)To express (something) by growling.

    The old man growled his displeasure at the postman.

    ворча́тьvorčátʹ, бурча́тьburčátʹ

  5. (transitive)To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.

  6. (intransitive)To perform death growl vocals.

Examples

151 sentences
  1. Tom's dog started growling at Mary.

    Собака Тома загарчав на Мері.

    ruПёс Тома зарычал на Мэри.

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  2. The dogs started growling at Tom.

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  3. Tom didn't hear the dog growl.

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  4. I can hear your stomach growling.

    deIch kann deinen Magen knurren hören.

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  5. I could hear my stomach growling.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to utter a deep guttural sound:
Русский
By meaning 2
to utter a deep guttural sound:
to express (something) by growling:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to utter a deep guttural sound:

Origin

From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either p

From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill.

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Forms

growls, growling, growled, growled
Base formgrowl · to growl
3rd person singulargrowls
Present participlegrowling
Past simplegrowled
Past participlegrowled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrowl
he, she, itgrowls

Past simpleLesson

all personsgrowled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave growled
he, she, ithas growled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill growl

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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