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sung like a bird

sung like a bird is the past participle of sing like a bird.

Meaning of sing like a bird

Verb

sing like a bird (third-person singular simple present sings like a bird, present participle singing like a bird, simple past sang like a bird, past participle sung like a bird)

  1. (simile) To have a beautiful singing voice.
    • When she had gone on a little, she began to sing like a bird, her sweet young voice rising on the air as if it had wings […]1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 709
  2. (idiomatic, simile) To divulge secrets with little coercion.
    • Totila will sing like a bird to the cops once I show the photocopies, […]2004, Kasey Michaels, Maggie Without a Clue, page 397

Questions about sung like a bird

What is sung like a bird the past participle of?
Sung like a bird is the past participle of sing like a bird.

Words near sung like a bird in the dictionary

  1. sung a different tune
  2. sung along
  3. sung for one's supper
  4. sung from the same hymnbook
  5. sung Kumbaya
  6. sung like a bird
  7. sung like a canary
  8. sung off the same hymn sheet
  9. sung out
  10. sung small
  11. sung soprano

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