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Adjective hissing has 1 sense
- hissing - noisy sound like a sustained `s'; "`hissing' is the sound a snake makes"
Antonym: quiet (indirect, via noisy)
Noun hissing has 1 sense
- hiss, hissing, sibilation - a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience"
--1 is a kind of noise
Verb hiss has 4 senses
- hiss, siss, sizz, sibilate - make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
--1 is one way to utter, emit, let out, let loose
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- hiss, whoosh - move with a whooshing sound
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate - express or utter with a hiss
--3 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
They hiss that there was a traffic accident
- boo, hiss - show displeasure, as after a performance or speech
--4 is one way to condemn
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
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