单词 | louden |
释义 | loudenv. 1. intransitive. To become or grow loud or louder. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)] > increase loudness risea1450 swell1749 loudena1848 crescendo1900 lift1912 a1848 R. W. Hamilton in Christian Sabbath (1852) xiii. 367 The birthday song of creation may well rise and louden into a new song. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1861) 505 An angry growl from the westward heavens..rolled and loudened nearer and nearer. 2. transitive. To make loud or louder. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > increase loudness louden1891 1891 Harper's Mag. Sept. 574/2 ‘Hum!’ loudening her voice. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France I. i. iv. 236 Internecine strife ought to be hushed instead of being loudened. Derivatives ˈloudening adj. that grows louder. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > increase of loudness rising1610 swelling1753 loudening1810 1810 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio III. 187 Groaning we start! and, at the loudening war, Ask our bewilder'd senses where we are. 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 183 A loudening hum of voices heralded a rush of warriors into the Uhon-nukon, or cleared space, with its central tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1810 |
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