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Buzzing

Buzz \Buzz\ (b[u^]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Buzzed (b[u^]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Buzzing.] [An onomatop[oe]i

  1. ] To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.

    Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him.
    --Longfellow.

    However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
buzzing

n. 1 The action of the verb ''to buzz''. 2 The sound produced by something that buzzes. vb. (present participle of buzz English)

WordNet
buzzing

adj. noisy like the sound of a bee; "the room was abuzz over the latest scandal" [syn: abuzz, droning]

Usage examples of "buzzing".

The Nodes from gates three to thirty-six were always buzzing with news of the latest infections caught trying to sneak past their guard.

Pawldo sat up in his bedroll as Newt darted into the air, buzzing anxiously toward the prince.

The black cloud became a massive shroud of living insects, buzzing and humming in an infernal chorus.

As the captain pushed into the city, the buzzing and biting insects of the plague began to fall dead in droves.

Nothing happened for a minute, and then the sound of chain saws erupted at the far end of the DRMO, sending their characteristic buzzing howl into the quiet night air for about twenty seconds before going quiet.

We have a picnic under the apple tree which is in white bloom and buzzing with flies, then she falls asleep on the blanket beside me and, to my surprise, I fall asleep too.

Porters threw away their burdens, men their spears, their screams shrill and loud enough to drown the buzzing little engine.

I had to shake my head, like his voice was an insect buzzing inside my skull.

The only sound was a high, white, buzzing, static, and the taste of blood in my mouth.

Nerves were jumping gleefully in her stomach, tickling in her throat, buzzing in her head.

But there was nothing but a buzzing that made her give in and drop her head between her knees.

Many glanced, spun ricochetting into the sea, and with a venomous buzzing like huge, angry hornets, lost themselves in quick, white spurts of foam.

The Master paid no more heed to them than to the buzzing of so many bees.

USUALLY, the buzzings of gangland were not heard beyond the confines of the underworld.

There were buzzings and rustlings in the thick patches of ferns, and intense heat rose from fetid pools between the bloodroot trees, where the great fanned buttresses spread into the swamp.