🎉 Lively activity 🎉 To be lively 🐝 To make a hum 🐝 A humming sound 🔔 To use a buzzer ✈️ To fly low

to buzz

77 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

79 2.5

To make a low, deep, continuous sound

is higher and more vibrating than this deep resonance

to hum

vsto buzz

42 1.0

Make a low steady sound like a machine

is more vibrating and insectlike than that steady tone

to whirr

vsto buzz

24 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

14 5.8

To make a long low steady sound

is livelier and more vibrating like active insects

to thrum

vsto buzz

4 8.0

To make a low, steady humming sound

is a plain continuous insect vibration rather than rhythmic emphasis

to chirr

vsto buzz

1 9.9

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

is steadier and less musical than that trilling sound

to burr

vsto buzz

1 7.9

To make a low buzzing or humming sound

is a purer continuous insect vibration rather than mixed whirring

to chir

vsto buzz

1 9.3

To make a short high sound like a bird or insect

is steadier and less like quick trills

to churr

vsto buzz

1 9.9

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

is focused on steady insect vibration rather than trilling

to bombinate

vsto buzz

Archaic

1 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 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

177 3.5

To stop someone from speaking or making noise

Idioms

a lot of buzz

Literature

10 3.9

Strong excitement and attention from many people and the media

Phrasal Verbs

to buzz about

Informal

26 3.4

Talk excitedly about something, often sharing news or rumors

to buzz off

Offensive

14 8.4

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

Compounds

buzz saw

5 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

1 4.4

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

How Loud

to roar

124 1.0

to buzz

77 1.1

to hum

42 1.0

to purr

13 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'.