Meaning & use
soughing
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Making a soft murmuring, rushing, or whispering sound, especially of wind through trees.
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The soughing of the wind through the pines was the only sound in the quiet forest.
She could hear the branches soughing gently outside her window all night.
A note on using this word
Soughing is an old word, often pronounced 'suffing' or 'sowing' depending on the dialect, and appears mostly in poetic or literary writing today.
Words with a similar meaning
murmuringrustling
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