English-Portuguese translations for mutter

• murmurar
  Imagino que as pessoas andarão por aí a murmurar contra a inadequação dos poderes legislativos. I imagine people are muttering to themselves about the inadequacy of legislative powers.
• murmúrio
  O Kremlin dificilmente irá tremer face aos murmúrios divididos da Europa. It is hardly shaking in its boots over the divided mutterings of Europe.
  Em segundo lugar, ninguém entende os murmúrios inaudíveis e incompreensíveis dos dirigentes europeus, que não têm mandato e, sobretudo, não têm legitimidade. Secondly, no one heeds the muted and incomprehensible mutterings of European leaders who have no mandate and, above all, no legitimacy.
• resmungar
  Nós não nos sentámos à margem, a resmungar, passivamente, mas lançámo­nos activamente à tarefa de formular alterações. We did not sit passively on the fence, muttering under our breath, but took a pro-active approach in tabling amendments.

Definition of mutter

• A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering
• To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath
• To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations
• To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise
• Peas

Examples

• The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.
• You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
• The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
• The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
• April could hear the delivery vans engine muttering in the driveway.

Related words

• muttering
• mutterings
• mutter to oneself
• muttering to oneself
• start muttering