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rustling
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murmuring |
| Synonyms: | murmurous, stirring, swishing, whispering |
| Main Entry: | rustle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | swish, whisper |
| Synonyms: | crackle, crepitate, crinkle, hum, murmur, patter, sigh, stir, tap, whir, whish, whoosh |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | rustle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whisper, swish |
| Synonyms: | crackle, crepitation, crinkling, friction, noise, patter, ripple, rustling, sound, stir |
| Main Entry: | whispering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murmuring |
| Synonyms: | buzzing, humming, rustling, susurrant |
| Antonyms: | howling, screaming, shouting, yelling |
| Main Entry: | crinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crumple, ruffle |
| Synonyms: | cockle, coil, crackle, crease, crimp, crimple, curl, fold, hiss, pucker, ruck, rumple, rustle, scallop, screw, scrunch, seam, swish, twist, whisper, wind, wreathe, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | hum |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | buzz, vibrate |
| Synonyms: | bombilate, bombinate, bum, bumble, croon, drone, moan, mumble, murmur, purr, rustle, sing, sing low, sound, strum, throb, thrum, trill, warble, whir, whisper, zoom |
| Main Entry: | ransack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn inside out in search; ravage |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, comb, despoil, explore, ferret, filch, go over with a fine-tooth comb, go through, gut, hunt, investigate, lay waste, leave no stone unturned, lift, look all over for, look high and low, look into, loot, make off with, maraud, overhaul, peer, pilfer, pillage, pinch, plunder, poach, probe, pry, purloin, raid, rake, rape, ravish, rifle, rob, rummage, rustle, sack, scan, scour, scrutinize, search, seek, seize, shake down, sound, spoil, spy, steal, strip, take away, thieve |
| Antonyms: | care for, clean, neaten, tidy |
| Main Entry: | roll |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | thunder, reverberate |
| Synonyms: | bombinate, boom, cannonade, drum, echo, growl, grumble, hum, pattern, quaver, rattle, re-echo, resound, roar, ruffle, rumble, rustle, sound, trill, whirr |
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