babble
/ˈbæbəl/
verb
- To make meaningless or confused sounds, like a baby or someone who cannot speak clearly.
- The baby babbled happily in her crib.
- The toddler babbled to herself while playing with blocks.
- He was so tired that he just babbled nonsense during the meeting.
- To talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish or excited way.
- The nervous witness babbled without making any sense.
- She babbled on about her vacation for an hour.
- Stop babbling and tell me what happened.
- To make a continuous low murmuring sound, like water flowing over stones.
- The fountain babbled softly in the garden.
- The stream babbled gently through the forest.
- We could hear the brook babbling in the distance.
noun
- Confused or meaningless talk; a mixture of sounds that is hard to understand.
- The recording was just a babble of static and whispers.
- His explanation was a babble of technical terms that nobody understood.
- All I could hear was the babble of voices in the crowded room.
- A gentle murmuring sound, like that of a stream.
- The babble of the creek helped her fall asleep.
- The only sound was the babble of the small waterfall.
- We sat by the river, listening to the babble of the water.
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