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Adjective mumbling has 1 sense
- mumbling, muttering - speaking low and indistinctly; "a mumbling parson stood beside the dying man"; "muttering crowds of onlookers"
Antonyms: nonspeaking, walk-on (indirect, via speaking)
Noun mumbling has 2 senses
- mumbling - indistinct enunciation
--1 is a kind of enunciation, diction
- mumbling, gumming - ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
--2 is a kind of chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
Verb mumble has 2 senses
- mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate - talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
--1 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue mumble
They mumble that there was a traffic accident
- mumble, gum - grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
--2 is one way to chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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