Please don't mumble.
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Mumble
//ˈmʌmbəl//
Synonyms for "mumble" (129 found)
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14 entriesis a
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10 entriesTranslations
73 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَمْغَمَة noun (quiet vocalization)
Bikol Central
1 entries- kimutkimot verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Bulgarian
3 entries- мънкане noun (quiet vocalization)
- мънкам verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- фъфля verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 低語 /低语 noun (quiet vocalization)
- 咕噥 /咕哝 verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Czech
2 entries- mumlání noun (quiet vocalization)
- mumlat verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Danish
2 entries- mumlen noun (quiet vocalization)
- mumle verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Dutch
1 entries- mompelen verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Esperanto
1 entries- murmuri verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Faroese
2 entries- mutla verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- mølma verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Finnish
4 entries- mumina noun (quiet vocalization)
- mongertaa verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- mumista verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- mutista verb (to speak unintelligibly)
French
1 entries- marmonner verb (to speak unintelligibly)
German
4 entries- Murmeln noun (quiet vocalization)
- murmeln verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- mümmeln verb (to chew something gently with closed lips)
- nuscheln verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Hungarian
2 entries- motyogás noun (quiet vocalization)
- motyog verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Icelandic
1 entries- muldra verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Indonesian
1 entries- bergumam verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Ingrian
1 entries- popottaa verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Italian
4 entries- balbettio noun (quiet vocalization)
- biascicamento noun (quiet vocalization)
- borbottio noun (quiet vocalization)
- farfugliamento noun (quiet vocalization)
Japanese
2 entries- 呟く verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- 囁く verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Macedonian
1 entries- мумла verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Malay
1 entries- gumam verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Māori
4 entries- nanu verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- pararāwaha verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- whakahāhā verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- whakameme verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Norwegian
2 entries- mumling noun (quiet vocalization)
- mumle verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Polish
2 entries- mamrotanie noun (quiet vocalization)
- mamrotać verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Portuguese
1 entries- murmurar verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Russian
4 entries- бормота́ние noun (quiet vocalization)
- бормота́ть verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- мя́млить verb (to speak unintelligibly)
- пробормота́ть verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- brunndail verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Spanish
4 entries- balbucencia noun (quiet vocalization)
- balbuceo noun (quiet vocalization)
- mascujada noun (quiet vocalization)
- balbucear verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Swedish
1 entries- mumla verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Tamil
2 entries- முணுமுணுப்பு noun (quiet vocalization)
- முணுமுணு verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Thai
1 entries- พึมพำ verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ми́мрити verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Uzbek
1 entries- ming’irlamoq verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lí nhí verb (to speak unintelligibly)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.
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I heard him mumble to himself.
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"Oh? Then, as I expected, I've been around longer than you. This year I'm 20-mumble years old." "What does that tell me?"
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