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sough

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5 lettersPronunciation /saʊ/Part of speech verbSorted ghosuStarts with SEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make a murmuring sound

Word origin

From Middle English sough (whence also Scots sheuch (“ditch”)), from Old English *sōh, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”); compare dialectal Dutch zoeg (“ditch”), and English sitch.

Used in a sentence

  • I lay awake for a while that evening, listening to the soughing of the wind high in the pines, realizing sadly that we must now return to civilization.
  • [...] Arthur; a fearful night it was: there was a sough in the air, a sound drawing nigh like that of a host marching:- — but you're looking pale and forwrought, man; is any thing ailing ye?
  • The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest.

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