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soughing

soughing is the present participle and gerund of sough.

Meaning of sough

Verb (1)

sough (third-person singular simple present soughs, present participle soughing, simple past and past participle soughed)

  1. To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
    • The great train snaked on through the dark, pounding out the miles through the empty plains and mingy hamlets of Georgia, the 'Peach State', the angry moan of its four-toned wind-horn soughing over the wide savannah and the long shaft of its single searchlight ripping the black calico of the night.1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 115

Verb (2)

sough (third-person singular simple present soughs, present participle soughing, simple past and past participle soughed)

  1. To drain.

See all 9 meanings of sough

Noun

soughing (plural soughings)

  1. A rushing, rustling sound.
    • So she sat, looking at the rain, listening to the many noiseless noises of it, and to the strange soughings of wind in upper branches, when there seemed to be no wind.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook...
    • From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187

Forms of soughing

pluralsoughings

Questions about soughing

What does soughing mean?
Soughing means a rushing, rustling sound.
What is soughing the present participle and gerund of?
Soughing is the present participle and gerund of sough.
What part of speech is soughing?
Soughing is a noun.
What is the plural of soughing?
The plural of soughing is soughings.

Words near soughing in the dictionary

  1. Sougaijam
  2. sougan
  3. sougans
  4. sough
  5. soughed
  6. soughing
  7. soughings
  8. soughs
  9. sought
  10. sought a knot in a bulrush
  11. sought after

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