Usually means: Rapid movement with swooshing sound.
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  1. whooshing: Merriam-Webster
  2. whooshing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. whooshing: Vocabulary.com
  4. whooshing: Wordnik
  5. whooshing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. whooshing: Wiktionary
  7. whooshing: Dictionary.com
  8. whooshing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whooshing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whooshing)

▸ noun:  A sound or motion that whooshes.

Similar:
hiss, hoosh, woosh, shoosh, swoosh, whiff-whaff, whizzing, whuff, swishing, zizz, more...

Opposite:
whispering, silence, stillness, quiet

Types:
rushing, blowing, gushing, surging, flowing, streaming, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, sudden, soft, constant

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Similar:
hiss, hoosh, woosh, shoosh, swoosh, whiff-whaff, whizzing, whuff, swishing, zizz, more...

Opposite:
whispering, silence, stillness, quiet

Types:
rushing, blowing, gushing, surging, flowing, streaming, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, sudden, soft, constant



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