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hum: a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic"; sing with closed lips; "She hummed a melody"; make a low continuous sound; "The refrigerator is humming"; sound with a monotonous hum; be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity"

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stutter collapse

haw collapse: the nictitating membrane of a horse; utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"

stammer collapse: a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds

hem and haw collapse: utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"

hesitate collapse: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"; interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"

thrumming collapse

purr collapse: a low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat; indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats

hem collapse: lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down; utter `hem' or `ahem'; fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt"

droning collapse

croon collapse: sing softly

intone collapse

bel canto collapse: a style of operatic singing

warbling collapse

scat singing collapse

intonate collapse: speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness"

purring collapse

feedback collapse: response to an inquiry or experiment; the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output

step lively collapse

blooping collapse

whir collapse: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers"

think twice collapse: consider and reconsider carefully; "Think twice before you have a child"

vocalization collapse

ho hum collapse

palter collapse

stick at collapse

humming collapse: the act of singing with closed lips

forge ahead collapse

drag on collapse: last unnecessarily long

shoot ahead collapse

Indian file collapse

single file collapse

scat collapse: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument; flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

flywheel effect collapse

shilly shally collapse

prevaricate collapse

go all out collapse: perform a task as well as possible; "The cast gives full measure every night"

swath collapse: a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing); the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine

yodel collapse: a songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto; sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"

nexus collapse: a connected series or group

tergiversate collapse

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