Pronunciations
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/əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/
Adjective
Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter.
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- Examples
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Her quip set the dinner table aroar.
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[…] 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.
The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.
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A ground swell set in; the beach was aroar with incoming waves;