Word.ws English Dictionary

soughs

soughs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about soughs

What is soughs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Soughs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sough.

Words near soughs in the dictionary

  1. sougans
  2. sough
  3. soughed
  4. soughing
  5. soughings
  6. soughs
  7. sought
  8. sought a knot in a bulrush
  9. sought after
  10. sought for
  11. sought one's fortune

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: soughs (page history and authors); sough (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “soughs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/soughs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.