Birr (Verb)
Meaning
Make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- As the silk fabric slid across the table it birred softly against the other garments.
- The high-speed train birred past the sleepy countryside village.
- Her slender fingers birred through the delicate silver threads.
- The leaves of the aspen tree birred in unison as a gentle breeze brushed past them.
- As the tires spun, the screeching car slowly started to birr into a stable motion.