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murmuring en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A sound that murmurs.
   • the murmurings of trees in the wind
2. (countable, uncountable) A complaint against something.
   • Do all things without murmurings and disputings. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:
   • When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings. 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:

Forms

Translations (12)

grc γογγυσμός (a complaint against something) · ga cnáimhseáil (a complaint against something) · it lamentele (a complaint against something) · la murmurātiō (a complaint against something) · gv tallagh (a complaint against something) · it brontolamento (a complaint against something) · la gannītus (a complaint against something) · got 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (a complaint against something) · pdt Jemurr (a complaint against something) · gv trughaneys (a complaint against something) · gv gaccan (a complaint against something) · fi nurina (a complaint against something)

murmuring en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of murmur
   form of murmur
   • Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157: