hoarsen

English

Etymology

From hoarse +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən

Verb

hoarsen (third-person singular simple present hoarsens, present participle hoarsening, simple past and past participle hoarsened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hoarse.
   • 2009 March 19, Carol Kino, “A Trustee Who Defined an Era of Corporate Giving”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     A canny business strategist who tends to express himself tersely — even more so now that his voice has been hoarsened by several strokes — he has rarely consented to interviews.

Translations

To make or become hoarse

• Bulgarian: преграквам (bg) (pregrakvam)
• Catalan: enrogallar (ca)
• Galician: enrouquecer (gl)
• Macedonian: зарипне pf (zaripne), засипне pf (zasipne)
• Old Portuguese: enrouquecer
• Polish: ochrypnąć (pl) pf, zachrypnąć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: enrouquecer

Anagrams

• Hearons, Hornsea, Shearon, an heros