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Antonyms for buzzing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : buhz
Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒz

Definition of buzzing

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 :
  • There is a continual jostling, and crowding, and buzzing, and striving to get promotion.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • There, buzzing in the air at the tip of his nose, was a lone mosquito.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • My lacqueys flitted about him buzzing and insistent as bees about a rose.
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • A teletabloid was affixed to this post, buzzing, but its stereo-screen blank.
  • Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
  • Why, I've been buzzing about today like a hen with her head cut off.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • The hum of buzzing insects seemed to intensify the summer heat.
  • Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Then their buzzing sounded like a hive of bees getting all stirred up.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
  • An instant and they were surrounded by an eager, buzzing throng.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • He was saved from this by the buzzing of Shatrak's communication-screen.
  • Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper
  • It sounded now like the buzzing of a swarm of bees, magnified a thousand times.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on the Trail » by George Durston

Synonyms for buzzing

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