noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An act in which someone mumbles something

   "The second is the contrast with the inarticulate stumblings, mumblings, evasions and half-truths of our current president."

2. 2
   ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) wordnet
3. 3
   indistinct enunciation wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of mumble form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

aspirationbated breathbreathbreathy voicedronedroning

Example

More examples

"He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg."

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