sough
📖 Definitions
verb intr.
To make a moaning, sighing, whistling, murmuring, or rustling sound.
noun
1. Such a sound.
2. A rumor.
💬 Usage Examples
“Or one could tell the name of the estate, and gesture toward imagined slopes, or sound the wind that soughs among the leaves at evening when the fruit is taking shape.” Catharine Savage Brosman; Olives; The Southern Review; Spring 2000. “‘Why, sir,’ says Alan, ‘I think I will have heard some sough of the sort.’” Robert Louis Stevenson; Kidnapped; Cassell and Company; 1886.