Usually means: Playing guitar strings with rhythm.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. strumming: Merriam-Webster
  2. strumming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strumming: Collins English Dictionary
  4. strumming: Vocabulary.com
  5. Strumming, strumming: Wordnik
  6. strumming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. strumming: Wiktionary
  8. strumming: Dictionary.com
  9. strumming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Strumming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Strumming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Strumming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. strumming: FreeDictionary.org
  14. strumming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

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

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▸ noun:  The action of the verb to strum

Similar:
fiddling, strutting, buttering, stirring, fretting, trotting, plucking, stirrage, strowl, lurching, more...

Opposite:
plucking, picking, arpeggiating

Types:
arpeggio, tremolo, strum, chord, more...

Phrases:
strumming a guitar, more...

Adjectives:
soft, rhythmic, monotonous, gentle, dull, low, much, acoustic, mere, constant, distant



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Similar:
fiddling, strutting, buttering, stirring, fretting, trotting, plucking, stirrage, strowl, lurching, more...

Opposite:
plucking, picking, arpeggiating

Types:
arpeggio, tremolo, strum, chord, more...

Phrases:
strumming a guitar, more...

Adjectives:
soft, rhythmic, monotonous, gentle, dull, low, much, acoustic, mere, constant, distant



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