remurmur

English

Etymology

re- + murmur

Verb

remurmur (third-person singular simple present remurmurs, present participle remurmuring, simple past and past participle remurmured)

  1. To murmur back or again; to reply in murmurs.
    • Alexander Pope
      The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, / Her fate remurmur to the silver flood.
    • 1749, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ‎John Ozell, ‎Pierre Antoine Motteux, The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha:
      Here he spies a pleasant rivulet, which, through its flow'ry banks, glides along over the brightest sand, and remurmurs over the whitest pebbles that bedimple its smooth sursace, while that other, through its liquid crystal, feasts the eye with a prospect of gold and orient pearl.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for remurmur in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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