aroar
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aroar
- Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter.
- Synonym: roaring
- Her quip set the dinner table aroar.
- 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “One Kind of Officer”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, and Other Stories[1], page 90:
- […] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.
- 1903, Jack London, “Too Much Gold”, in The Faith of Men, and Other Stories[2], New York: Macmillan, page 105:
- The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.
- 1956, Yukio Mishima, chapter 8, in Meredith Weatherby, transl., The Sound of Waves[3], Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, page 64:
- A ground swell set in; the beach was aroar with incoming waves;