Usually means: Low, guttural sound from throat.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. growl: Merriam-Webster
  2. growl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. growl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. growl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. growl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Growl, growl: Wordnik
  7. growl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. growl: Wiktionary
  9. growl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. growl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. growl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Growl, growl: Dictionary.com
  13. growl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. growl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GROWL, Growl (software), Growl (song), Growl (video game), Growl (wind instruments), Growl, The Growl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Growl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. growl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. growl: Rhymezone
  19. growl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. growl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. growl: FreeDictionary.org
  22. growl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. growl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. growl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. growl: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. growl: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. GROWL: Acronym Finder
  3. growl: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. growl, growl, growl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. growl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See growled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
noun:  (by extension) A similar sound made by a human.
noun:  (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
noun:  (by extension) An aggressive grumbling.
noun:  (jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
noun:  (by extension) Death growl
verb:  (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
verb:  (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
verb:  (intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
verb:  (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
verb:  (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform death growl vocals.

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