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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitationnoun

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

  2. grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, mutteringadjective

    a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

  3. murmuring, susurrant, whisperingadjective

    making a low continuous indistinct sound

    "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"

Wikipedia

  1. murmuring

    Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound. A simple breathy phonation, [ɦ] (not actually a fricative consonant, as a literal reading of the IPA chart would suggest), can sometimes be heard as an allophone of English /h/ between vowels, such as in the word behind, for some speakers. In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages like Sanskrit and Hindi and comparative Indo-European studies, breathy consonants are often called voiced aspirated, as in the Hindi and Sanskrit stops normally denoted bh, dh, ḍh, jh, and gh and the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phoneme gʷʰ. From an articulatory perspective, that terminology is inaccurate, as breathy voice is a different type of phonation from aspiration. However, breathy and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is a delay in the onset of full voicing. In the history of several languages, like Greek and some varieties of Chinese, breathy stops have developed into aspirated stops.

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  1. murmuring

    Murmuring is the act of speaking or making low, soft sounds that are typically indistinct or barely audible, often expressing discontent or disapproval. It can also refer to the continuous sound created by a multitude of soft voices or noises.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Murmuring

    of Murmur

  2. Murmuring

    uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of murmuring in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of murmuring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of murmuring in a Sentence

  1. Graham Nash:

    Thousands and thousands of people. Rain. Mud. Candles. People. Murmuring. Sound. It was unbelievable, the size of something like Woodstock - things get very hazy. They get very hazy if you're straight. They get incredibly hazy if you were high. And that's what we were so I have very few memories of interaction backstage.

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