Usually means: Stirring, moving softly through leaves.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. rustling: Merriam-Webster
  2. rustling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rustling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rustling, rustling: Wordnik
  5. rustling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rustling: Wiktionary
  7. Rustling, rustling: Dictionary.com
  8. rustling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Rustling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rustling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rustling: Rhymezone
  12. Rustling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rustling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. rustling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rustling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. rustling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rustling: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rustling, rustling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rustling)

▸ noun:  The rounding up and theft of animals, cattle in particular.
▸ noun:  A series of rustles.

Similar:
soughing, susurrous, whispering, murmurous, soft, sheepstealing, roundup, abigeat, mustering, rodeo, more...

Opposite:
still, silent, quiet, noiseless

Types:
leaves, raincoat, grass, branches, paper, bushes, curtains, plastic bags, more...

Phrases:
cattle rustling, rustling up, rustling of wind in trees, rustling footsteps, rustling leaves, more...

Adjectives:
faint, slight, soft, gentle, great, sudden, more, loud, uncertain, sad, cattle

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     forest green,     fern,     emerald, more...



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Similar:
soughing, susurrous, whispering, murmurous, soft, sheepstealing, roundup, abigeat, mustering, rodeo, more...

Opposite:
still, silent, quiet, noiseless

Types:
leaves, raincoat, grass, branches, paper, bushes, curtains, plastic bags, more...

Phrases:
cattle rustling, rustling up, rustling of wind in trees, rustling footsteps, rustling leaves, white noise rustling, rustling like that of sheets, more...

Adjectives:
faint, slight, soft, gentle, great, sudden, more, loud, uncertain, sad, cattle

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     forest green,     fern,     emerald, more...



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