hiss
/hɪs/ verb C2- To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping. · As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.· The poor cat hissed as it backed away from the approaching man.
- To call someone by hissing.
- To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. · The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.
- To utter (something) with a hissing sound.
- To move with a hissing sound. · The arrow hissed through the air.
- To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound.
- To whisper, especially angrily or urgently.
He/she/it hisses · Past hissed · Past participle hissed · -ing form hissing
Verb forms
- Base form
- hiss
- He/she/it
- hisses
- Past
- hissed
- Past participle
- hissed
- -ing form
- hissing
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She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.
The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss, and Mowgli kicked up his feet behind, clapped his hands together to applaud himself, and jumped on to Bagheera’s back, where he sat sideways, drumming with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at Baloo.
He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and gave the Call a second time, to make sure.
Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them.
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