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roaring on

roaring on is the present participle and gerund of roar on.

Meaning of roar on

Verb

roar on (third-person singular simple present roars on, present participle roaring on, simple past and past participle roared on)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To cheer loudly for.
    • With the game crying out for width, the home fans roared on winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain whenever he touched the ball, but he was unable to show why he is a £10m target for Liverpool and Arsenal.2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC

Questions about roaring on

What is roaring on the present participle and gerund of?
Roaring on is the present participle and gerund of roar on.

Words near roaring on in the dictionary

  1. roaring forties
  2. roaring game
  3. Roaring Meg
  4. Roaring Megs
  5. roaring off
  6. roaring on
  7. roaring out
  8. roaring success
  9. roaring successes
  10. Roaring Twenties
  11. roaringly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roaring on (page history and authors); roar on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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