murmur

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1. murmur - Noun

2. murmur - Verb

Meaning

A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.

A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.

To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest.

To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often with at or against.

To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales.

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. William Shenstone

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. José Martí

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. David Almond

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ. Augustine of Hippo

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. Kurt Vonnegut

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