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HISSING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
Example:
the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience
Synonyms:
fizzle; hiss; hissing; hushing; sibilation
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hissing" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
hiss (show displeasure, as after a performance or speech)
hiss (make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval)
hiss (express or utter with a hiss)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb hiss
Context examples:
The wood had been soaked in oil, for in an instant it was ablaze, and a long, hissing, yellow flame licked over the heads of the defenders, and drove them further up to the first floor of the keep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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