Loudness
Nouns
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loudness, power
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loud noise, din
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blare
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clang, clangor
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clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom
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bang (explosion) [Sudden and violent sounds.] Snap
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resonance etc. Resonance. vociferation, hullabaloo, c. Cry
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lungs
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Stentor. artillery, cannon
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thunder.
Verbs
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be loud etc. adj.
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peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar
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resound etc. Resonance. speak up, shout etc. (vociferate) Cry
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bellow etc. (cry as an animal) [Animal sounds.] Ululation. rend the air, rend the skies
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fill the air
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din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear
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pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head
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deafen, stun
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make one's windows shake, rattle the windows
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awaken the echoes, startle the echoes
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wake the dead.
Adjectives
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loud, sonorous
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high-sounding, big-sounding
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deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous
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thundering, deafening etc. v.
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trumpet-tongued
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ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening
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piercing
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obstreperous, rackety, uproarious
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enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers. shrill etc. [Harsh sounds.] Stridor clamorous etc. (vociferous) Cry stentorian, stentorophonic.
Adverbs
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loudly etc. adj.. aloud
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at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry.
Phrases
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the air rings with
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the deep dread-bolted thunder" [Lear].