Usually means: Spoke softly, often indistinctly, quietly.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. murmured: Merriam-Webster
  2. murmured: Collins English Dictionary
  3. murmured: Vocabulary.com
  4. Murmured, murmured: Wordnik
  5. murmured: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. murmured: Wiktionary
  7. Murmured, murmured: Dictionary.com
  8. murmured: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Murmured: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Murmured: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Murmured: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. murmured: FreeDictionary.org
  13. murmured: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. murmured: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. murmured: Legal dictionary

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  1. murmured: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. murmured: Medical dictionary

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  1. murmured: Idioms

(Note: See murmur as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (murmur)

noun:  (countable, uncountable) Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Soft indistinct speech.
noun:  (cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
noun:  A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or against someone or something.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter.
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