Verb
1 move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the
doors open"
2 move with a whooshing sound [syn: hiss]
3 gush or squirt out; "Oil whooshed up when the
drill hit the well"
Moby Thesaurus
assibilate, assibilation, buzz, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, lisp, rhonchus, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, wheeze, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, zipEnglish
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʊʃ
Noun
whoosh- A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
Translations
- Dutch: gesuis, geruis, gesis
- French: sifflement
Quotations
- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." —Douglas Adams