Antonyms for buzzed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : buhz

Phonetic Transcription : bʌz

conceal
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Definition of buzzed

Origin : late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is by 1941 (see buzz (n.)). Related: Buzzed; buzzing. Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone," from the use of buzzers to signal a call or message on old systems. As a command, it originally would have been telling someone to get off the line.

verb make droning sound
verb gossip

Example sentences :

Our town, as may be imagined, buzzed with transcendent gossip on the morrow.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

Ned buzzed by, picked up two of the thugs, and hauled them off to the cells.
Extract from : « Arm of the Law » by Harry Harrison

Upon this last a cloud of natives and summer folk swarmed and buzzed.
Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance

There was not a village of log-houses but buzzed with its own miracle.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

Jimmy's head just buzzed with thoughts as he ran to the police-station.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 » by Various

But on the other side of that netting they buzzed in an angry grey cloud.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

The fly must have buzzed between me and one of the occupants of the outer laboratory.
Extract from : « The Point of View » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

"The flowers want you to come into the garden," buzzed the bee.
Extract from : « Sandman's Goodnight Stories » by Abbie Phillips Walker

They buzzed in the road, for a few minutes, and then came back to work.
Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade

One teacher in St. Cloud had buzzed frightfully about these minutiæ.
Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis

Synonyms for buzzed

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