There are many causes of hoarseness, including viral laryngitis, vocal cord nodules, laryngeal papillomas, gastroesophageal reflux-related laryngitis, and environmental irritants (such as tobacco smoking). An accumulation of fluid in the vocal cords associated with hoarseness has been termed Reinke's edema. Reinke's edema may occur as a result of cigarette smoking or voice abuse (prolonged or extended talking or shouting). Rarely, hoarseness results from serious conditions such as cancers of the head and neck region.
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View in context. Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chair, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor; just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of your dying babe.
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Her breath was short and raspy and cross, like the breath of a person who runs for a train—and misses it. For all time to come, he sez slow and raspy, I want you to leave my stuff alone. Under the silent horror of foreboding our nerves became raw and our tempers, like those of the others, short and raspy. I reckon he will lose 'em, though, projected a raspy voice.
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Friar Tuck Robert Alexander Wason. Under the silent horror of foreboding our nerves became raw and our tempers, like those of the others, short and raspy. The Portal of Dreams Charles Neville Buck. I reckon he will lose 'em, though, projected a raspy voice.
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hoarse - 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.
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Hoarseness: Hoarseness is a term referring to abnormal voice changes. Hoarseness may be manifested as a voice that sounds breathy, strained, rough, raspy, or a voice that has higher or lower pitch.
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jump to other results. (of a person or voice) sounding rough and unpleasant, especially because of a sore throat He shouted himself hoarse. a hoarse cough/cry/scream His voice was hoarse with exhaustion. Word Origin Old English hās, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hees. The spelling with r was influenced in Middle English by an Old Norse cognate.Extra examples Excitement made her voice hoarse. He shouted himself hoarse, but still no one came. Her voice was hoarse from shouting.
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No, sorry, I speak fast, and my voice is kind of raspy because we went out drinking last night. Kelly Clarkson Talks Heartbreak Ramin Setoodeh October 24, 2011. I hear it again in my ears, as I did that day in October 1971, ardent and raspy, unchanged by the passage of time.
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The one image which the word Socialist brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.
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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. If you're supposed to perform in a play tonight, you'd better hope you don't get hoarse: a hoarse voice doesn't sound the way it should. It's scratchy, gruff, and hard to understand. Sometimes people get hoarse from talking too much. Inhaling smoke can make you hoarse too.
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define raspy voice
Hoarseness may be manifested as a voice that sounds breathy, strained, rough, raspy, or a voice that has higher or lower pitch. Raspy voice is a voice that sounds breathy, strained, rough, raspy, or a voice that has higher or lower pitch.