roar

To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.

Sole on the barren ſands the ſuff'ring chief / Roar'd out for anguiſh, and indulg'd his grief.

To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

The audience roared at his jokes.

Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise.

The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.

Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.

The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.

How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.

To proceed vigorously.

United's attempt to extend their unbeaten league sequence to 23 games this season looked to be in shreds as the Seasiders - managed by Ian Holloway - roared into a fully deserved two-goal lead at the interval.

A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.

The cry of the lion.

The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.

Tarzan could imagine how old Numa’s eyes were shining—how he was already sucking in his breath for the awful roar which would freeze his prey for the brief instant between the moment of the spring and the sinking of terrible fangs into splintering bones.

The deep cry of the bull.

A loud resounding noise.

the roar of a motorbike

I stand amid the roar / Of a surf-tormented shore, / And I hold within my hand / Grains of the golden sand—

A show of strength or character.