Usually means: Cat softly vibrates expressing contentment.
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  1. purred: Merriam-Webster
  2. purred: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purred: Vocabulary.com
  4. purred: Wordnik
  5. purred: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purred: Wiktionary
  7. Purred, purred: Dictionary.com
  8. purred: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Purred: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Purred: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. purred: FreeDictionary.org
  12. purred: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See purr as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purr)

verb:  (intransitive, of a cat) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure.
verb:  (intransitive, of an engine) To make a low and consistent rumbling sound.
noun:  The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.
noun:  A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person.
noun:  The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed
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