| 释义 |
louden, v.|ˈlaʊd(ə)n|
[f. loud a. + -en5.]
1. intr. To become or grow loud or louder.
a1848R. W. Hamilton in Chr. Sabbath (1852) xiii. 367 The birthday song of creation may well rise and louden into a new song. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! (1861) 505 An angry growl from the westward heavens..rolled and loudened nearer and nearer.
2. trans. To make loud or louder. rare—1.
1898Bodley France I. i. iv. 236 Internecine strife ought to be hushed instead of being loudened.
Hence ˈloudening ppl. a., that grows louder.
1805A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 173 Groaning we start! and at the loudening war, Ask our bewildered senses where we are. 1864R. F. Burton Dahome I. 183 A loudening hum of voices heralded a rush of warriors into the Uhon-nukon, or cleared space, with its central tree. |