murmured
past simple and past participle of
murmur
Meaning of murmured in English
murmur
verb
uk
/ˈmɜː.mər/ us
/ˈmɝː.mɚ/murmur verb (SPEAK QUIETLY)
murmur verb (COMPLAIN)
Examples of murmured
murmured
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Across all categories of pulmonic stops (voiceless aspirated, voiced, murmured voiced) the coronals show the highest degree of error.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Later it was murmured around that he had not been consulted.
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He merely murmured a comment to me from his seated position.
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I hear the word "bylaws" murmured in my ear, and that might also be a way to do it.
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Affricates are also commonly aspirated:, occasionally murmured:, and sometimes prenasalized:.
Even his senior advisers murmured loudly, and the king reluctantly agreed to postpone the expedition for a year.
Additionally, between vowels a breathy or murmured can occur.
This may be tenuis, aspirated, voiced, or murmured (breathy-voiced).
True fricatives may have a murmured phonation "in addition" to producing friction elsewhere.
It's like the murmured account of n private adventure which is almost mystical.
A long, glottalized, murmured, nasalized "o" with falling tone is written.
The murmured stops may lose their breathy-voice between vowels and word-finally.
Open glottis voiceless breathy voice, also called "murmured" slack voice!
Sanskrit loans have introduced aspirated and murmured consonants as well.
Modal voice, creaky voice, and breathy voice (murmured vowels) are phonation types that are used contrastively in some languages.
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