MEANING
To make a soft moaning, sighing, or murmuring sound, especially as wind passes through trees.
Use it for
Wind in woods, hollow airy noise, and restrained acoustic atmosphere.Give wind an audible low, sustained passage.
Words that belong together
- wind soughs
- sough through pines
- soughing branches
On the page
A low wind soughed in the needles overhead.
Above the silent pond, the branches were soughing.
A night breeze soughed in the tall grass.
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Word forms
- Base
- sough / soughs
- Past tense
- soughed
- Past participle
- soughed
- Present participle
- soughing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- sough / soughs
- Present continuous
- am/is/are soughing
- Present perfect
- have/has soughed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been soughing
- Past
- soughed
- Past continuous
- was/were soughing
- Past perfect
- had soughed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been soughing
- Future
- will sough / soughs
- Future continuous
- will be soughing
- Future perfect
- will have soughed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been soughing
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Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Literary and uncommon; usually a continuous airy sound rather than separate rattles. Also a noun. Verb [base, third-person, past, past participle, -ing]: sough, soughs, soughed, soughed, soughing.
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