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râle — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • groan noun A low, drawn-out sound made when someone is in pain, upset, or annoyed.
  • rail noun A horizontal bar used as a support or barrier, or one of the metal bars that trains run on.
  • rale noun An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
  • rattle verb To make a rapid series of short, sharp knocking sounds by shaking or being shaken.

Senses

râle is used for these senses in English:

  • groan A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
  • rail Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
  • rale (medicine, now, chiefly, in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.

groan — full definition

  1. noun A low, drawn-out sound made when someone is in pain, upset, or annoyed.
  2. verb To make this kind of low, unhappy sound.

rail — full definition

  1. noun A horizontal bar used as a support or barrier, or one of the metal bars that trains run on.
  2. noun Train transport considered as a system or industry.
  3. verb To complain loudly and bitterly (usually "rail against" or "rail at").

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