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loud
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loud (Deafening), adjective blaring, blustering, boisterous, booming, brawling, clattery, crashing, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, emphatic, fulminating, grinding, intense, jarring, noisy, obstreperous, penetrating, piercing, powerful, pulsating, pulsing, rebounding, reechoing, repercussive, resonant, roaring, roiling, rollicking, shouting, shrill, sounding, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vociferous
loud (Ostentatious), adjective blinding, brash, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, intrusive, jazzy, loudmouthed, lurid, meretricious, obtrusive, offensive, ornate, outlandish, outstanding, pronounced, rude, showy, snazzy, spectacular, splashy, striking, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar
See also: blatant, disorderly, flagrant, obtrusive, powerful, resounding, tawdry


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Even though the author refrains from interrupting the even flow of his storytelling with loudening moments of intrigue, his intimate grasp of life, and the subtleties of the human experience make this book a deeply satisfying reading adventure.
Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories by Henry, Tanu T. / Black Issues Book Review
From the road beyond the creepered walls they call to him now and then, and he'll take off in spite of the angry trees, hearing like the loudening of his heart the name he never can he never can repeat.
"Here only the sea is real": Robert Hayden's postmodern passages by Murphy, Jim / MELUS
There is no real way up or out of darkness, no real way back through constricted caverns clotted with loudening fearfulness, fouled, filthy, crawling toward light, I am reaching for light in a dream, whatever time has passed as my body thickens in middle age, I sweat and shoot straight up, Fowler's position in a hospital bed, dull-eyed to whatever the white-clad apparitions want of me, would have me do, as they try to get in and I try to get out of my head.
Tunnel rats by Phillips, Frank Lamont / African American Review
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