SOUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sough mean? 

• SOUGH (verb)
  The verb SOUGH has 1 sense:

1. make a murmuring sound

  Familiarity information: SOUGH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUGH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sough    ... he / she / it soughs   
Past simple: soughed   
Past participle: soughed   
-ing form: soughing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a murmuring sound

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

purl; sough

Context example:

the water was purling

Hypernyms (to "sough" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

That evening calm betrayed alike the tinkle of the nearest streams, the sough of the most remote.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere—the sweet restful silence of nature.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was an utter stillness, save for the sharp breathing of the Lady Tiphaine and for the gentle soughing of the wind outside, which wafted to their ears the distant call upon a swine-herd's horn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)