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| murmur | |
| 1. n. Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water. |  |
| 2. n. Soft indistinct speech. | |
| A murmur arose from the audience. | |
| 3. n. (medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart. | |
| 4. n. A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, now rare) To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or against someone or something. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter. | |
| I couldn't hear the words; he just murmured a lot. | |
| The bees murmured in the forest. The waves murmured on the shore. | |
| 7. v. To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter. | |
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