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to buzz

to buzz

42 1.1
To make a low steady sound like a bee
  • verb
  • /bʌz/
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  • The bees strike down on their old places, look around, buzz a little, and fly home again.
  • flies buzz

The voice fails, the eyes grow dim, the ears buzz, the limbs totter.

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Examples

  • The day had grown hot, and flies buzzed around the garbage in the streets.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Finally, a bee that has been buzzing around in Berlioz's bass saves the day!

    Academic text (2002)

  • You hear that buzzing noise?

    The Cathedral (2022)

  • The heart machine is buzzing!

    Ambulance (2022)

  • Do you see all the pollinators right now just buzzing around?

  • Bands of mosquitoes buzzed on the netting around my face.

    Academic text (2003)

  • So you forgot bug spray and now you've got mosquitoes buzzing around your head.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • I hear the flies buzzing on the porch and the whining of ones stuck in the flypaper.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • As I walked through the garden, I could hear the bees buzzing among the flowers.

  • The room was filled with students buzzing about their summer vacation plans.

Synonyms

to rumble
vsto buzz
  • Literature
84 2.5

To make a low, deep, continuous sound

is higher and more vibrating than this deep resonance
to hum
vsto buzz
49 1.0

Make a low steady sound like a machine

is more vibrating and insectlike than that steady tone
to whirr
vsto buzz
16 6.7

To make a soft, steady buzzing sound often from things that move fast like fan blades

is produced by living insects rather than moving machinery
to drone
vsto buzz
1 5.8

To make a long low steady sound

is livelier and more vibrating like active insects
to chirr
vsto buzz
9.9

To make a long high buzzing sound like a grasshopper or cicada

is steadier and less musical than that trilling sound
to thrum
vsto buzz
8.0

To make a low, steady humming sound

is a plain continuous insect vibration rather than rhythmic emphasis
to burr
vsto buzz
7.9

To make a low buzzing or humming sound

is a purer continuous insect vibration rather than mixed whirring
to bombinate
vsto buzz
  • Archaic
9.9

To make a low buzzing sound like bees

is more narrowly the insectlike continuous vibrating sound
to bombilate
vsto buzz
  • Archaic
9.9

Make a low buzzing sound like bees

focuses more on steady insect vibration rather than general droning
to churr
vsto buzz
  • UK
9.9

Make a low, vibrating sound that repeats, like a bird or insect

is focused on steady insect vibration rather than trilling
to chir
vsto buzz
9.3

To make a short high sound like a bird or insect

is steadier and less like quick trills
to bizz
vsto buzz
9.9

To make a short low buzzing sound like a small electronic motor or insect

is continuous and longer rather than a short sound

Antonyms

to silence
169 3.5

To stop someone from speaking or making noise

Idioms

a lot of buzz
  • Literature
13 3.9

Strong excitement and attention from many people and the media

Phrasal Verbs

to buzz about
  • Informal
14 3.4

Talk excitedly about something, often sharing news or rumors

to buzz off
  • Offensive
12 8.4

To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way

Compounds

buzz saw
1 4.4

A machine with a round metal blade that turns quickly to cut wood

buzz bomb
  • Archaic
1 9.4

A small jet-powered flying bomb used by Germany in World War II to attack cities

buzz of the crowd
4.4

A loud, excited noise and feeling from people at a live event

How Loud

to roar
98 1.0
to buzz
42 1.1
to hum
49 1.0
to purr
6 3.5

Surface Forms

buzz infinitive
buzzed past
buzzed past participle
buzzing present participle
buzzes third person singular

Etymology

Buzz as a verb simply copies the bee sound 'bzzz', so to buzz is 'to make a low, vibrating sound'.