murmured
past simple and past participle ofmurmur
murmur
verb
uk/ˈmɜː.mər/us/ˈmɝː.mɚ/murmurverb(SPEAK QUIETLY)
C2[IorT]
tospeakor say something veryquietly:
[+ speech]"Iloveyou," she murmured.
He was murmuringtohimself.
humorousHe murmuredsweetnothings(=romantictalk)in herear.
Ways of talking
- beg the questionidiom
- blah
- blether
- blither
- coo
- declaim
- declamatory
- gabble
- loose
- mumble
- pipe
- ramble
- rattle on/away
- stage whisper
- talk trashidiom
- throwyourvoiceidiom
- trash
- trill
- word salad
- yak
murmurverb(COMPLAIN)
[I]
tocomplainabout something that youdisagreewith ordislike, but not in apublicway:
They were murmuringaboutthe boss'snephewgetting thejob.
Complaining
- be/go on atsomeoneidiom
- bellyaching
- bewail
- brouhaha
- bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
- complain
- complaining
- create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
- gnashing of teethidiom
- grouch
- make noisesidiom
- mutter
- nark
- raise a rumpusidiom
- rumpus
- squawk
- start on atsomeone
- vituperation
- whinging
- whiny
Examplesofmurmured
murmured
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Across all categories of pulmonic stops (voiceless aspirated, voiced,murmuredvoiced) the coronals show the highest degree of error.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Later it wasmurmuredaround that he had not been consulted.
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He merelymurmureda comment to me from his seated position.
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I hear the word "bylaws"murmuredin my ear, and that might also be a way to do it.
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Affricates are also commonly aspirated:, occasionallymurmured:, and sometimes prenasalized:.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Even his senior advisersmurmuredloudly, and the king reluctantly agreed to postpone the expedition for a year.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, between vowels a breathy ormurmuredcan occur.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This may be tenuis, aspirated, voiced, ormurmured(breathy-voiced).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.True fricatives may have amurmuredphonation "in addition" to producing friction elsewhere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It's like themurmuredaccount of n private adventure which is almost mystical.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A long, glottalized,murmured, nasalized "o" with falling tone is written.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Themurmuredstops may lose their breathy-voice between vowels and word-finally.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Open glottis voiceless breathy voice, also called "murmured" slack voice!
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sanskrit loans have introduced aspirated andmurmuredconsonants as well.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Modal voice, creaky voice, and breathy voice (murmuredvowels) are phonation types that are used contrastively in some languages.
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