whisper noun
ADJ. barely audible, the barest, faint, gentle, hushed, low, mere/the merest, soft | fierce, harsh | audible, loud, stage ‘I knew this would happen,’ he said in a stage whisper (= one that he wanted everyone to hear). | hoarse, husky, strangled | awed, excited, urgent | confidential, conspiratorial
PREP. above a ~ Their voices were very quiet, hardly above a whisper. | in a ~ They spoke in whispers.
whisper verb
ADV. softly | hoarsely, huskily, thickly | fiercely, urgently ‘Come on,’he whispered urgently. | brokenly, shakily, unsteadily | angrily, bitterly, furiously | confidentially, conspiratorially | excitedly | almost, half | back ‘Yes, ’ I whispered back.
VERB + WHISPER can/could only He could only whisper in reply. | hear sb She heard him whisper her name.
PREP. about I felt that everyone was whispering about me. | against ‘Hush, ’ he whispered against her hair. | through ‘No, ’ he whispered through gritted teeth. | to ‘Let's go,’ she whispered to Anne.
PHRASES whisper sth in/into sb's ear, whisper sweet nothings He held her and whispered sweet nothings in her ear.
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