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Murmur   /mˈərmər/   Listen
noun
Murmur  n.  
1.
A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.
2.
A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. "Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs."



verb
Murmur  v. t.  To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales. "The people murmured such things concerning him."



Murmur  v. i.  (past & past part. murmured; pres. part. murmuring)  
1.
To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest. "They murmured as doth a swarm of bees."
2.
To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; often with at or against. "His disciples murmured at it." "And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron." "Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured."






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"Murmur" Quotes from Famous Books



... succeeded in making pretty and comfortable. To wake in the morning and hear the pleasant murmur of the waves; to open her window to the soft sweet briny air, and look out on the waters glittering in the early golden light; to listen to the laughter and shrill cries of Cis and Charlie chasing each other in the garden, and feel that they ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander

... a white ghost in her wedding gown, her little slippers stumbling over the stones, her breath coming sobbingly as she ran. They followed her. Back of them, at the great fire whose illumination deepened the shadows here, rose a murmur, a rising of curious people, a pressing forward to the Wingate station. But of these none knew the truth, and it was curiosity that now sought answer for the delay ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough

... the objections and cavils that are made and will be made by the ungodly in the day of the Lord Jesus, they have not one about election, and reprobation: they murmur not at all that they were not predestinated to eternal life; and the reason is, because then they shall see, though now they are blind, that God could in his prerogative royal, without prejudice to them that ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... of whom paid with their lives, and that chiefly owing to want of provisions. Albuquerque knew well, however, if he had returned to Portugal with the other ships, that he would have been deprived of his government, as the people began already to murmur at his proud and lofty demeanour. Among other instances of his pride, he caused to be painted over his gallery, the figure of Fortune and his own picture, with a staff standing by, as if threatening Fortune, with this motto, Quero ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr

... the switch down, and there surged out a low-throated murmur of power. And immediately the ball of wire came to life. The fine, crisscrossing wires disappeared, and in their stead was color, every color in the spectrum. Like waves rhythmically rising and falling, ...
— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore


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