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whispering

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈ(h)wɪspəɹɪŋ//

That whispers.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of whisperpresent participle and gerund of whisper

adjective

  1. 1

    That whispers.

  2. 2

    Associated with whispers.

noun

  1. 1

    Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.

  2. 2

    The sound of whispers;

  3. 3

    The projection of intention and influence caused by sending thoughts or desires outward through softly-spoken words or subtle mental or energetic means.

    "Witches feel that anyone who is against them has to be destroyed. The method is to give the victim what we call a whispering. It is similar to the aborigine ceremony in Australia of singing someone to death. The witches gather in a circle and focus their hate on the persons they have in mind. These vibrations from their minds and voices carry whispers to the one who they are working against."

Forms

plural
whisperings
comparative
more whispering
superlative
most whispering
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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).