Antonyms for growl
graʊlgrowl

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1. growl

   To complain is to give utterance to dissatisfaction or objection, express a sense of wrong or ill treatment. One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable. Complaining is by speech or writing; murmuring is commonly said of half-repressed utterance; repining of the mental act alone. One may complain of an offense to the offender or to others; he remonstrates with the offender only. Complain has a formal and legal meaning, which the other words have not, signifying to make a formal accusation, present a specific charge; the same is true of the noun complaint.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, approve, commend, eulogize, laud, praise

   Synonyms:
   complain, croak, find fault, grumble, grunt, murmur, remonstrate, repine

   Preposition:
   Complain of a thing to a person; of one person to another, of or against a person for an act; to an officer; before the court; about a thing.

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1. growl

   Antonyms:
   chuckle, cackle, grin, purr, acquiesce, growth

   Synonyms:
   snarl, grumble, complain, remonstrate, murmur, grunt

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1. • Utter

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1. growl, growlingverb

   the sound of growling (as made by animals)

   Synonyms:
   growling

2. grumble, growl, rumbleverb

   to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds

   "he grumbled a rude response"; "Stones grumbled down the cliff"

   Synonyms:
   mutter, scold, murmur, grumble, gnarl, grouch, croak, rumble

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1. growlnoun

   Synonyms:
   grumble, snarl, gnarl

How to use growl in a sentence?

1. James Macleod:

   I noticed you've got Candy keeping guard because, as we came down the corridor, she was not going to let us get anywhere near you, she gave a little growl as we came in.

2. Samuel Johnson:

   Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

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