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Antonyms for gibbering


Grammar : Verb
Spell : jib-er, gib-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɪb ər, ˈgɪb-



Definition of gibbering

Origin :
  • c.1600, probably a back-formation from gibberish. Related: Gibbered; gibbering.
  • verb babble
Example sentences :
  • It is then that you will get the gibbering of returning life.
  • Extract from : « Journeys to Bagdad » by Charles S. Brooks
  • She lay listening to a quivering, gibbering tune that she did not know.
  • Extract from : « Beyond » by John Galsworthy
  • "You be a brave Buckra," said she, in her gibbering English.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard I. Pyle
  • Shake up, you gibbering fools; luff her a bit and make fast.
  • Extract from : « The Iron Pirate » by Max Pemberton
  • Our society is becoming a veritable babel of gibbering crowds.
  • Extract from : « The Behavior of Crowds » by Everett Dean Martin
  • He sent a host of gibbering Giaour ghosts to hell while on his way to heaven.
  • Extract from : « The Captain of the Janizaries » by James M. Ludlow
  • With knocking knees and gibbering to himself, he went about feeding the others.
  • Extract from : « Fighting Byng » by A. Stone
  • (With gibbering baboon's cries he jerks his hips in the cynical spasm) Hik!
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • An ape-man ran past them, gibbering, mad with fright, and dived to the track.
  • Extract from : « The Onslaught from Rigel » by Fletcher Pratt
  • The patients have all escaped and are gibbering in the open fields.
  • Extract from : « The King of Alsander » by James Elroy Flecker

Synonyms for gibbering

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