growled

Verb

growl (third-person singular simple present growls, present participle growling, simple past and past participle growled)

1. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
   • The dog growled at me as I walked past.

   Synonyms:

   gnar, gnarl, gurl, snarl

2. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
   • And he is bending in the wind, scooping pitch, growling. […] He plays his false fingers. Chokes the trumpet. He is naked. This is naked jazz. O-bop-she-bam. Never lying. Telling it like it is.1998, Jackie Kay, “Music”, in Trumpet, London: Picador, →ISBN; 1st Vintage Contemporaries edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, 2000, →ISBN
3. (intransitive) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
4. (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
   • The old man growled his displeasure at the postman.
5. (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
   • […] John Gilmore would take up his tenor and growl a keening march, Danny Thompson stab and worry with a flute, Sun Ra leave his big conga and mount the temple of keyboards for a ritual parenthesis of chromatic zig-zags and electro-howls.2005, Gerald Majer, “Proxima Ra”, in The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 37
6. (intransitive) To perform death growl vocals.

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