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murred

murred is the simple past and past participle of murr.

Meaning of murr

Verb

murr (third-person singular simple present murrs, present participle murring, simple past and past participle murred)

  1. (colloquial, especially, onomatopoeic, slang) To purr.
    • The cat murred and purred and tried to lick his face and David was filled with such happiness. All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.1989, Dawn Borrelli, Kate, page 101

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Questions about murred

What is murred the simple past and past participle of?
Murred is the simple past and past participle of murr.

Words near murred in the dictionary

  1. murrays
  2. Murrays Beach
  3. Murrays Run
  4. Murrayville
  5. murre
  6. murred
  7. Murree
  8. murrein
  9. murreins
  10. murrelet
  11. murrelets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: murred (page history and authors); murr (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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