Unscramble soundings

Definition of sounding

adjective:

• appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking", "a most disagreeable looking character", "angry-looking", "liquid-looking", "severe-looking policemen on noble horses", "fine-sounding phrases", "taken in by high-sounding talk". Synonyms: looking.
• having volume or deepness; ; - Wordsworth; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal", "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion".
• making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding".

noun:

• a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line.
• the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line).

verb:

• appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting". Synonyms: sound.
• make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'", "The gun went `bang'". Synonyms: go, sound.
• give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy". Synonyms: sound.
• announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm". Synonyms: sound.
• utter with vibrating vocal chords. Synonyms: sound, vocalise, vocalize, voice. Antonyms: devoice.
• cause to sound; "sound the bell", "sound a certain note". Synonyms: sound.
• measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line. Synonyms: fathom, sound.

Related words

babble, bang, beat, beep, birr, blare, bleep, blow, bombilate, bombinate, boom, bubble, burble, buzz, cackel, chatter, chime, chink, chirk, chug, clang, clangor, clangour, clank, claxon, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crack, crash, din, dissonate, drone, drum, echo, glug, gong, grumble, guggle, gurgle, honk, hum, knell, knock, lap, noise, patter, peal, pierce, ping, pink, play, plunk, pop, prepare, purr, quaver, rap, rattle, resonate, resound, reverberate, ring, ripple, roll, rumble, rustle, sing, skirl, slosh, slush, snap, snarl, speak, splash, splat, splosh, squelch, strum, swish, swoosh, swosh, tap, thrum, thud, thump, tick, ticktack, ticktock, ting, tink, tinkle, toot, trump, twang, tweet, twirp, vibrate, waver, whir, whirr, whish, whistle, whiz, whizz.

Words nearby

founding, pounding, rounding, wounding.

Rhymes with

abounding, astounding, compounding, confounding, expounding, founding, grounding, impounding, pounding, resounding, rounding, surrounding.