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noun

Definition of murmuringnext
as in muttering
speech that is not clear enough to be understood his surprising announcement brought murmurings from the crowd

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murmuring

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adjective

as in humming

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murmuring

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verb

present participle of murmur
1
as in complaining
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely no prisoner dared murmur out loud

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2
as in mumbling
to speak softly and unclearly a college professor who tends to murmur

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for murmuring
  1. complaining
  2. resonant
  3. whisper
  4. grunt
Verb
  • Advertisement In Pennsylvania, for example, Republicans filed a lawsuit complaining the state’s rules for accepting absentee ballots that arrive with small errors, like a missing date on the envelope, are too lenient.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Leave none standing, none breathing, none whining and complaining and being useless and miserable all the time.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of complaining
Adjective
  • Deloitte's study underscores the importance of emotionally resonant storytelling in building customer loyalty.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Somebody Somewhere has a history of turning musical performances into emotionally resonant scenes.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of resonant
Noun
  • In a glancing sense, for me, there are whispers of the Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman musical Follies in The Last Showgirl.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The Kimberley is a truly wild place, where human history is merely a whisper over millennia.
    Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of whisper
Noun
  • There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Even more excitingly for casual gamers needing more multi-threaded grunt is that AMD should be releasing higher core count X3D processors in the next few months where a Ryzen 9 9950X3D could become the most desirable processor for at least the next 12 months.
    Antony Leather, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of grunt
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