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Maunder (Verb)

Meaning 1

Wander aimlessly.

Classification

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

Examples

  • The tourists maundured through the unfamiliar streets of the old city, taking in its rich history and culture.
  • After a breakup, she found herself simply maundering around town with no direction or purpose in life.
  • The pensioner spent his days maundering in quiet reflection, lost in the memories of his youth.
  • The over-30 travelers were prone to maundering on lengthy tangents during the group trip planning sessions.
  • Traveling without a plan allowed her to maunder through the beautiful countryside.

Hypernyms

  • Swan
  • Roam
  • Cast
  • Wander
  • Ramble
  • Rove
  • Range
  • Drift
  • Tramp
  • Stray
  • Vagabond

Meaning 2

Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice.

Classification

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

Examples

  • The elderly man would often mander to himself when he was lost in thought, his words barely audible to those around him.
  • She began to mander softly as she rocked gently back and forth in her chair.
  • The politician's attempt to mander his way through the difficult question only resulted in further confusion among the press.
  • As he drifted off to sleep, he started to mander incoherently, his words a jumbled mix of sense and nonsense.
  • The tour guide's tendency to mander forced many in the group to strain their ears to catch what she was saying about the artwork.

Synonyms

  • Mussitate
  • Mumble
  • Mutter

Hypernyms

  • Speak
  • Verbalise
  • Talk
  • Verbalize
  • Mouth

Meaning 3

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

Classification

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

Examples

  • She can mauer on about anything for hours at parties, barely letting anyone else speak a word.
  • My aunt loves to mander about the neighborhood gossip and never seems to run out of things to say.
  • When her friends are away, she starts to mander on her phone about every single detail of her day.
  • Someone who feels uncomfortable with silence often tries to fill the gap by simply choosing to mander about pretty much nothing in particular.
  • Apparently her mother can mander away for hours on how she used to walk five miles in the snow every morning when she was little.

Synonyms

  • Clack
  • Blab
  • Prattle
  • Tattle
  • Palaver
  • Gibber
  • Gabble
  • Piffle
  • Tittle-tattle
  • Chatter
  • Prate
  • Twaddle
  • Blabber

Hypernyms

  • Speak
  • Verbalise
  • Talk
  • Verbalize
  • Mouth
  • Utter

Hyponyms

  • Smatter
  • Blather
  • Blither
  • Babble
  • Blether
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