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▸ noun: (usually in the plural) A rumor.
▸ noun: (figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).
▸ noun: A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.
▸ noun: (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
▸ verb: (transitive) To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make a low, sibilant sound.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
▸ verb: (Internet) To send a private message to an individual in a chat room.
Similar:
rustle,
whisperation,
whisperingness,
semiwhisper,
stage whisper,
whisperhood,
wheeze,
wheesh,
voicelet,
undervoice,
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