murmuring
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]murmuring
- present participle and gerund of murmur
- 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
- 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.
Noun
[edit]murmuring (countable and uncountable, plural murmurings)
- A sound that murmurs.
- the murmurings of trees in the wind
- A complaint against something.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:
- Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
- 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:
- When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
Translations
[edit]a complaint against something
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