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murring

murring is the present participle and gerund 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 murring

What is murring the present participle and gerund of?
Murring is the present participle and gerund of murr.

Words near murring in the dictionary

  1. Murrin Bridge
  2. Murrindal
  3. Murrindindi
  4. murrine
  5. murrines
  6. murring
  7. Murringo
  8. Murrinh-Patha
  9. Murrinhpatha
  10. murrins
  11. murrion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: murring (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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