A hoarse voice is deep and rough and kind of hard to make out. People get hoarse when they're sick, or when they are calling in sick to work.
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound;
Adjective S.
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog''s gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
superl.
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when
affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the
hoarse raven.
superl.
Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
Hoarse
The hoarse resounding shore.2.
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound;
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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