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Murmuring   /mˈərmərɪŋ/   Listen
Murmuring

noun
1.
A low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.  Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, mussitation, mutter, muttering.
2.
A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.  Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering.
adjective
1.
Making a low continuous indistinct sound.  Synonyms: susurrant, whispering.  "Susurrant voices"


Murmur

verb
(past & past part. murmured; pres. part. murmuring)
1.
Speak softly or indistinctly.
2.
Make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath.  Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, mutter.



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"Murmuring" Quotes from Famous Books



... murmuring—but still bravely working; and storms and tempests, the purifiers of stagnant nature, are ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey
... blew gently down the little valley of the Lairet, which wound and rippled over its glossy brown pebbles, murmuring a quiet song down in its hollow bed. Tufts of spiry grass clung to its steep banks, and a few wild flowers peeped out of nooks among the sere fallen leaves that lay upon the still greensward on each shore of ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... sands, watching the waves idly lap the shore, Lola brought herself nearer to me with a rhythmic movement as no other creature form of woman is capable of, and looked into my eyes. And she whispered something to me which led to an infinite murmuring of foolish things. I put my arms round her and kissed her on the lips and on her cheek—whether the beautiful or the maimed I knew not—and she sank into a long, long silence. ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... Springfield within ten days, each one of them, even the twin babies, wearing a small American flag so that they might be recognized by their new employer who was to meet them at Springfield and convoy them home. Mrs. Tsanoff left Rose House in tears, kissing the hands of all the girls and murmuring her gratitude to all of them over and over again as she ...
— Ethel Morton at Rose House • Mabell S. C. Smith
... the true Empire of Beauty. If you would consider aright, you'd find an agreeable Change in dismissing the Attendance of a Slave, to receive the Complaisance of a Companion. I bear the former in hopes of the latter Condition: As I live in Chains without murmuring at the Power which inflicts 'em, so I could enjoy Freedom without forgetting ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele


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