growl vs resound

growl

noun
  • A similar sound made by a human. 

  • The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach. 

  • An aggressive grumbling. 

  • A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. 

  • A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument. 

verb
  • To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound. 

  • To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. 

  • Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. 

  • To send a user a message via the Growl software library. 

  • To express (something) by growling. 

resound

noun
  • An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding. 

  • The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance. 

verb
  • Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise. 

  • Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring. 

  • Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned. 

  • Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo. 

  • Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously. 

  • Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time. 

  • To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly. 

  • To echo or repeat (a sound). 

  • To sound again. 

  • To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing. 

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