0 present participle of murmur
2 to complain about something that you disagree with or dislike, but not in a public way:
She falls asleep even while murmuring the end of her prayer.
Such a view is a staple of creation ' scientists ', but even cosmologists and biochemists have been overheard murmuring similar sentiments.
As a result, rumour became associated in the minds of the authorities with disaffection, the word itself implying murmurings of discontent.
He has left his wife, and a child in the high school has been ill a week, weeping her eyes out and murmuring his name.
To speak the truth of one's feelings and desires, to "share" them as the saying has it, is not merely a rendering audible of the inarticulate murmurings of the soul.
One is more likely to find them strung out rather like a murmuring of starlings along the high street.
There were naturally some restive murmurings among the workers.
The doctors are murmuring threats or, perhaps in some people's view, doing more than murmuring.