CHURR Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

churr 1 of 2

noun

Definition of churr

as in hum

a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion the churr of grasshoppers in the field

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churr

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verb

as in to burr

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Noun

Indeed, the team behind this research believes this hum of spacetime ripples could help explain how supermassive black holes grew so rapidly before the universe was even a billion years old.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The noise in Granbury, Texas, that started as a hum in the summer of 2023 had by January begun to disturb her at all hours.

— Tavleen Tarrant, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of hum

Verb

As the machine whirred to life, the film strip moved from a large platter through a system of rollers, pulled sideways across the front of the lens.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
In the corner of a nondescript office in Sheffield, a city in the north of England, a compact server full of Nvidia chips is whirring away.

— Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of whir

Noun

Kimie Smothermon begins each day greeted by the squeals, chirps and purrs of nearly 400 guinea pigs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
In the mid-1970s, Slash’s mother, the costume designer Ola Hudson, worked on the American production of The Rocky Horror Show, whose Frank-N-Furter is the unmistakable touchstone of Bourzgui’s David, down to the depraved purr.

— Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of purr

Verb

But delivering that level of craft in a high-octane room where the hissing espresso machine competes with the bassline?

— Carly Boers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
And in 2022, Japanese researchers turned a Madagascar hissing cockroach into a cyborg for search-and-rescue missions using a similar, though more sophisticated, approach.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of hiss

Noun

Built on the cliffs just a short stroll from the buzz of Dubrovnik’s Old Town, Villa Dubrovnik looks out across the turquoise Adriatic to Lokrum Island on one side, and the city’s historic terra-cotta rooftops on the other.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
On Tuesday, August 18, she was nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards, including best new artist, and the Grammy buzz has already begun.

— Abigail Sylvor Greenberg, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026

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