0 past simple and past participle of mumble --
1 to speak quietly and in a way that is not clear so that the words are difficult to understand: --
[ + speech ] "I'm sorry," he mumbled.
She mumbled something about being too busy.
I went to another meeting upstairs, and a number of people mumbled almost incoherently some explanations that nobody at the back of the room could hear.
At the inquest the officer said that he asked the driver to goon with the train, and that the driver mumbled something which he could not understand.
He has mumbled, waffled, sidestepped and made comments that are difficult to reconcile with facts.
The word "evacuation" is now accepted and mumbled out on all sorts of occasions.
We had the room for one hour, and they mumbled on and on.
All the "stop-go" phrases which were never going to be used were mumbled out.
He mumbled and mumbled and was hardly articulate.
He mumbled about some sort of community project, so that the joyriders could channel their energies into other things.
