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murmurating

murmurating is the present participle and gerund of murmurate.

Meaning of murmurate

Verb

murmurate (third-person singular simple present murmurates, present participle murmurating, simple past and past participle murmurated)

  1. (intransitive) Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
    • By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph

Questions about murmurating

What is murmurating the present participle and gerund of?
Murmurating is the present participle and gerund of murmurate.

Words near murmurating in the dictionary

  1. murmur diphthong
  2. murmur diphthongs
  3. murmurate
  4. murmurated
  5. murmurates
  6. murmurating
  7. murmuration
  8. murmurations
  9. murmured
  10. murmurer
  11. murmurers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: murmurating (page history and authors); murmurate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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