A low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.

synoniemen: murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering.

Roget 405: faintness etc. adj.; faint sound, whisper, breath; undertone, underbreath^†; murmur, hum, susurration; tinkle; still small voice.   " hoarseness etc. adj.; raucity^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: geruis
Pools: mamlanie, mamlenie, mamrotanie, mruczenie

A schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant.

synoniem: murmur vowel.

An abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves.

synoniemen: cardiac murmur, heart murmur.

A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.

synoniemen: grumble, grumbling, murmuring, mutter, muttering.

Roget 839: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.    cry etc. (vociferation) 411; scream, howl; outcry, wail of woe, ululation; frown, scowl.    tear; weeping etc. v.; flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation^†, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth.    plaintiveness etc. adj.; languishment^†; condolence etc. 915.    mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory^†; knell etc. 363; deep death song, dirge, coronach^†, nenia^†, requiem, elegy, epicedium^†; threne^†; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade^†; ullalulla^†.    mourner; grumbler etc. (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: grommen
Pools: pokwękanie

Speak softly or indistinctly.

Roget 348: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle^†, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle^†, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out etc. (egress) 295.    rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle^†.    flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue^†.    [Cause a flow] pour; pour out etc. (discharge) 297; shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) 337; spill, splash.    [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up etc. (close) 261; obstruct etc. 706.    ... meer laten zien

Make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath.

synoniemen: croak, gnarl, grumble, mutter.

Roget 839: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with etc. 915; fret etc. (suffer) 828; wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem [Lat.] [Vergil]; etc. (regret) 833 give sorrow words.    sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; waft a sigh from Indus to the pole" [Pope]; sigh 'like a furnace'" [As you Like It]; wail.    cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber^†, whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes [Fr.]; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.    scream etc. (cry out) 411; mew etc. (animal sounds) 412; groan, moan, whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air.    frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief.    complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate etc. (disapprove) 932.    cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 405: whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow; tinkle; mutter etc. (speak imperfectly) 583; susurrate^†.    steal on the ear; melt in the air, float on the air.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: morren, murmureren