hummed

verb

past tense of hum
1
as in buzzed
to be copiously supplied one restaurant was humming with diners, while a neighboring eatery was practically empty

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2
as in zipped
to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound a helicopter hummed overhead

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Recent Examples of hummed As the tattoo machine hummed across her leg, Savanna Georges watched another chapter of her faith take shape in ink. — Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026 The town's only hospital hummed with ambulances, burial teams and a steady stream of patients. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 July 2026 DeChambeau hummed and whistled and messed with the 15 or so reporters still waiting him out. — Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 July 2026 Experiments were running, discoveries being made, and conferences hummed with new ideas. — Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026 Eye Patch rocked on the balls of his feet and hummed. — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026 On the exhibition floor at the annual international BIO conference in San Diego, biotech and startup executives hummed around pavilions representing member countries and states, pausing to watch World Cup games on a giant screen at a South Korean contract drug manufacturer’s booth. — Brittany Trang, STAT, 25 June 2026 Five racks of computer servers hummed in a futuristic yet industrial-looking classroom at Atlanta Technical College, south of downtown. — Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 26 May 2026 Others gathered in clusters of desks, showing their artwork to friends as lo-fi music hummed in the background. — Noah Alcala Bach, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hummed
  1. buzzed
  2. zipped
  3. burst
  4. whispered
  5. bulged
  6. whirred
Verb
  • That same day, 260 miles west, the mayor of another Saskatchewan town was sitting on the end of a fishing dock when his phone buzzed with a text message.
    — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Navy flight that buzzed the Renton, Washington training facility on the Southeastern shore of Lake Washington lasted much of the football team's first padded practice.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of buzzed
Verb
  • Voyager 1 zipped past Jupiter in 1979 and, in 1980, flew by Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026
  • De Minaur zipped to a 5-0 lead, downshifted, then won 6-2, 6-3 and delivered a big sweaty hug at the net.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of zipped
Verb
  • The flames that burst from each copper pipe aren’t responsible for generating the organ’s tones.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The Saturday morning calm at Catalina Island Health’s two-bed emergency room was broken just before noon, when two tourists with arm injuries burst in within minutes of one another.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of burst
Verb
  • Arizona Cardinals executives and coaches caught wind and whispered about the fit at the NFL Scouting Combine.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 28 July 2026
  • Prices are thought to be set to jump too, with more than US$90,000 being whispered around the car world.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 July 2026
Definition of whispered
Verb
  • My husband Grant Wahl's bulged and burst, at an age when this disease usually means something inherited.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • That ball found the head of Jude Bellingham, whose diving header bulged the net and opened the scoring.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of bulged
Verb
  • Luis was dressed in his hospital pyjamas; his pained breathing fogged his mask while the oxygen canister gurgled and whirred.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Traffic hummed along the avenue, and machinery whirred at the tire shop.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of whirred

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