noise
/ˈnoɪ̯z/ verb C2- To make a noise; to sound.
- To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. · an ugly story that was being noised about in newsrooms across the nation
He/she/it noises · Past noised · Past participle noised · -ing form noising
Verb forms
- Base form
- noise
- He/she/it
- noises
- Past
- noised
- Past participle
- noised
- -ing form
- noising
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.” And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.
“To begin a night’s work with that noise!
It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open, and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.
The big, serious, old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil, for the young wolves will only learn as much of the Law of the Jungle as applies to their own pack and tribe, and run away as soon as they can repeat the Hunting Verse--“Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all these things are the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui the Jackal and the Hyaena whom we hate.” But Mowgli, as a man-cub, had to learn a great deal more than this.
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