v
(intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
adj
(informal) Characterised by a bloop sound.
n
A humming or booming sound.
adj
(idiomatic) Very violent or hard, as an impact.
v
(transitive, archaic in Britain, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.
v
(intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
v
(intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
adj
(informal) Using a large number of buzzwords.
n
The act of producing a chirrup sound.
n
The sound or action of one who chomps.
v
(intransitive) To produce this sound.
n
(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
adj
Sounding with small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
adv
With a crackling sound.
v
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
v
Alternative form of craunch [(transitive, archaic) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.]
n
The sound or action of something that crashes.
n
(archaic) A grinding or crunching sound.
n
One who, or that which, creaks.
n
Nonstandard spelling of crepitus. [(medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.]
n
The act of crepitating or crackling.
n
(medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.
n
(medicine, colloquial) Crepitations.
n
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
v
Obsolete spelling of creak [(intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.]
v
To grind the teeth, crunch
v
(transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
v
(now slang) Alternative form of crunch [To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.]
v
(archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.
v
(transitive) To soothe by singing softly.
v
(obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
v
(intransitive) To produce such a sound.
n
Alternative spelling of crunch time [(slang) A critical period of time during which it is necessary to work hard and fast.]
adv
With a crunching sound or action.
n
The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying.
n
Alternative spelling of death rattle [The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying.]
n
The sound made by something that fizzes.
adv
With a flopping sound.
n
The dull sound so produced.
n
(phonetics) Turbulent and noisy airflow.
n
(obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
n
The sound made by something that grates against something else.
n
A grinding or crunching sound.
v
(computing, slang, intransitive) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
n
(phonetics) A hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
n
(Scotland) A grunting sound.
n
(medicine) A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema produced by the heart beating against air-filled tissues.
v
Alternative form of hiss [(intransitive) To make a hissing sound.]
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To hiss.
v
(intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
v
(now chiefly Scotland) To lament, complain.
n
(usually in the plural) An unexplained sound, like a cannon or a sonic boom, heard in various waterfront communities.
v
(intransitive) To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
n
An instance of this sound.
n
A sound made by tigers and snow leopards without the intent to threaten, producing a breathy snort by blowing through the nostrils whilst the mouth is closed — a low-frequency equivalent of the purring found in domestic cats.
v
(intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
v
(dialect, intransitive) To make a squelching sound.
v
(intransitive) To grunt; moan.
v
(intransitive) To grunt; moan.
n
(medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
n
(obsolete) A soft crackling or rustling sound.
n
(aerospace) A kind of extrusion defect in cladding, characterized by circumferential cracks.
adj
Of the lungs, chest, etc., producing raspy or gurgling sound due to excess mucus.
v
(intransitive) To make the sound of a frog or toad.
adj
Deep- and slow-sounding.
adj
Tending to rustle; making a rustling noise.
adj
(informal, of an analogue radio transmission) Noisy, lossy; marred by white noise or static as a result of poor or low signal, interference or unfavourable atmospheric conditions.
v
(UK dialect, Northern England) To shriek; to screech.
n
A rustling sound like that produced from friction between silk fibers.
v
(intransitive, rare) To produce white noise.
v
(obsolete) To screech, scream.
v
(intransitive) To whistle or hiss.
v
(US, colloquial, intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
n
The action or sound of breathing during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
n
(medicine) A murmuring or blowing sound.
v
To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
v
(intransitive, informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.
n
(regional, obsolete) A noise.
v
To make a rustling sound while moving.
v
(intransitive) To make a tsk sound of disapproval.
n
A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
n
A breathy noise, as of a horse or a bird.
n
A whirr, the sounds of a whirr.
n
A sibilant sound, especially that of rapid movement through the air.
v
(intransitive) To make a low snuffling or blowing sound.
n
(audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
v
(intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To make a rushing sound; to whizz.
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