Meaning & use
murmuring
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A low, soft, continuous sound, such as indistinct talking or a gentle natural noise.
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A murmuring of voices drifted from the next room.
The murmuring of the stream lulled her to sleep.
A note on using this word
Can also function as a verb ('the crowd was murmuring'); as a noun it often describes an ambient, hard-to-make-out sound rather than distinct words.
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