Crossword clues for murmuring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murmuring \Mur"mur*ing\, a. & n. Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining. -- Mur"mur*ing*ly, adv.
Murmur \Mur"mur\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Murmured; p. pr. & vb. n. Murmuring.] [F. murmurer, L. murmurare, murmurari, fr. murmur murmur; cf. Gr. ? to roar and boil, said of water, Skr. marmara a rustling sound; prob. of imitative origin.]
-
To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest.
They murmured as doth a swarm of bees.
--Chaucer. -
To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often with at or against. ``His disciples murmured at it.'' --John vi. 6
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron.
--Num. xiv.Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured.
--1 Cor. x. 10.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., verbal noun from murmur (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sound that murmurs. 2 A complaint against something. vb. (present participle of murmur English)
WordNet
adj. making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices" [syn: susurrant, whispering]
n. a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech [syn: mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuration, mussitation]
a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone [syn: grumble, grumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering]
Usage examples of "murmuring".
She tried to speak, but the anguished murmuring of the dead swelled into a crescendo and swept her words away.
Just as quickly, there arose a low drone of murmuring comments attesting to their admiration.
A nurse stood at the bassinet in the dim light, tending to him, murmuring softly.
Millions of rustling grass-blades made one murmuring sound, and thousands of wild ducks and geese and herons and cranes and pelicans were talking sharply and brassily in the wind.
A perfect carpet of it is at our feet, and the brooklet makes the sweetest murmuring as it glides onward through the grove, telling all the while, like some silly schoolgirl, where you may look for it.
He threw his burnous over his shoulder and moved away smiling, and murmuring in a luscious voice the first words of Ganem, the Slave of Love.
The visit of an unknown lady, and at such a late hour, had not been kept secret from her: her imagination at once pictured a yawning abyss on the edge of which I was standing, and she was continually sighing and moaning and murmuring French sentences, quoted from a little manuscript book entitled Extraits de Lecture.
Smiling knowingly, Meryt had slipped out, only murmuring something about time being short.
Beyond the crowns of the murmuring palms, and the wide outspreading branches of the tamanu and breadfruit and pandanus trees, lay the blue, heaving bosom of the Pacific.
Nothing broke the stillness but the murmuring hum of the surf, and the strange weird rustle of the wind as it soughed through the groves of pandanus and coco-palms.
As they lay thus, white-veiled women appeared, who crouched by the heads of these sleepers, murmuring into their ears, and when from time to time they sat up, gave them to drink from cups they carried, after partaking of which they lay down again and became quite senseless.
A pleasant land it is in sooth of murmuring waters, fishful streams where sport the gurnard, the plaice, the roach, the halibut, the gibbed haddock, the grilse, the dab, the brill, the flounder, the pollock, the mixed coarse fish generally and other denizens of the aqueous kingdom too numerous to be enumerated.
Its volume became greater, the prolonged murmuring note took on a deeper tone.
Mindlink beam, mixing with the blacks and the grays and the almost subaudible murmuring of the thousands of other Mindlink customers.
In the north district of Britain, beyond the Humber and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less variety, singing in only two parts, one murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble.