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SOUGHING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soughing mean?
• SOUGHING (adjective)
The adjective SOUGHING has 1 sense:
1. characterized by soft sounds
Familiarity information: SOUGHING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by soft sounds
Synonyms:
murmurous; rustling; soughing; susurrous
Context example:
a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines
Similar:
soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)
Context examples
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)
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