English-Portuguese translations for murmur

• murmurar
• murmúrio
  Estas instituições mal levantam um murmúrio de crítica a respeito dos sanguinários ditadores que as integram. These institutions raise scarcely a murmur of criticism about the bloody dictators that they include.
  Muitos laços que existiam anteriormente a 1989 dissolveram-se muito rapidamente, embora quase sem um murmúrio. Many ties that existed prior to 1989 were dissolved very quickly yet almost without a murmur.
  Depois das irregularidades da primeira volta, a Europa bateu na mesa, mas não pronunciou sequer um murmúrio de protesto. After the irregularities of the first round Europe thumped the table, but failed to utter even a murmur of protest.
• sopro

Definition of murmur

• Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water
• The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart
• To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent or someone or something.
• To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.
• To say indistinctly, to mutter.

Examples

• A murmur arose from the audience.
• I couldnt hear the words; he just murmured a lot
• The bees murmured in the forest. The waves murmured on the shore

Related words

• murmuring
• heart murmur
• cardiac murmur