Antonyms for buzzed


Grammar : Verb
Spell : buhz
Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒz


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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