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murmuring

verbnouncommon in dialogue

A sound that murmurs.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of murmurpresent participle and gerund of murmur

    Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

noun

  1. 1

    A sound that murmurs.

    the murmurings of trees in the wind

  2. 2

    A complaint against something.

    Do all things without murmurings and disputings.

    When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.

Forms

plural
murmurings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).