rustling

Speech parts

1. rustling - Noun

2. rustling - Verb

4. rustling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Rustle

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

whisper whispering rustle murmurous susurrous soughing swish take active break soft lift steal breath stealing
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Antonyms

still lost static quiet loud idle
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Hypernyms

noise theft stealing larceny thieving thievery

Phrases with the word

frictional rustling cattle-rustling

Anagrams

lustring

Examples

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Walter Benjamin

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. Paul Tillich

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. Friedrich Nietzsche

Loud cheeps the mouse, when the cat's no rustling. Scottish Proverb

Even the rustling of leaves will alarm the hare. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

rustless steel rustlessness rustlike rustlingly rustly Rustman