Assert and Murmur

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• A low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.
  • synonyms: mutter, muttering, murmuring, murmuration, mussitation
• A schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant.
  • synonyms: murmur vowel
• An abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves.
  • synonyms: heart murmur, cardiac murmur
• A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.
  • synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmuring, mutter, muttering

verb

• Speak softly or indistinctly.
  • usage: "She murmured softly to the baby in her arms"
• Make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath.
  • usage: "she grumbles when she feels overworked"
  • synonyms: mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl

• (v.t.) To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales.
• (v.i.) A complaint half suppressed or uttered in a low, muttering voice.
• (v.i.) To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves or the wind in a forest.
• (v.i.) To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often with at or against.
• (v.i.) A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.