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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)

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."

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."

adjective

Murmuring adj., n. Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining.

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Etymology of 'Murmuring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Murmuring" Quotes from Famous Books

... accept my most hearty thanks and my dearest love. You have all been good, obedient, and cheerful, and have lightened many a heavy load. If, when it pleased Providence to send us into this wilderness, it had been part of my lot to contend with wilful and disobedient children; if there had been murmuring and repining at our trials; discontent and quarrelling among yourselves, how much more painful would have been our situation. On the contrary, by your good humour and attention, your willing submission to privations, and your affectionate conduct towards me, my wife, and each other, you have ...

— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat

... exhausted, he lay so still and motionless, that she feared to look. She wanted him to speak, yet dreaded his first words. She kissed his hair, his head, his very clothes, murmuring low, ...

— Ruth • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... this wretched life, and murmuring, and apish trifles. Why art thou thus disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee?... Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better." (ix. 37.) The thought is like that which dominates through the Penitential ...

— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

... Murmuring how she loved me—she Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour, To set its struggling passion free From pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me ...

— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne

... withdraw.[85] The clue to the mystery has at last been found in a secret arrangement between Kuhn and a certain financial group concerning the Banat. About this more will be said later. In one of my own cablegrams to the United States I wrote: "People are everywhere murmuring and whispering that beneath the surface of things powerful undercurrents are flowing which invisibly sway the policy of the secret council, and the public believes that this accounts for the sinister vacillation and delay of which ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

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