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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Speech conducted in a hushed manner, akin to a murmur or a whisper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A comatose patient's action of forming words with their lips without producing sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound
History
Learned borrowing from Latin mussitātiō (“soft noise made by dogs, or (Late Latin) people”) + English -ion (suffix denoting a condition or state). Mussitātiō is derived from mussitātus (“kept quiet; having been kept quiet; murmured, muttered; having been muttered”) (see further at mussitate) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs).
