Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To modulate a tone's frequency.

  2. (transitive)To sing like a bird, especially with trills.

    щебета́тьščebetátʹ, залива́тьсяzalivátʹsja, издавать трели

    sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

  3. (transitive)To cause to quaver or vibrate.

  4. (intransitive)To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The larks are warbling in the air.

    deDie Lerchen trillern droben in der Luft. — al_ex_an_der

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to sing like a bird, especially with trills:

Origin

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

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Forms

warbles, warbling, warbled, warbled
Base formwarble · to warble
3rd person singularwarbles
Present participlewarbling
Past simplewarbled
Past participlewarbled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywarble
he, she, itwarbles

Past simpleLesson

all personswarbled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave warbled
he, she, ithas warbled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill warble

Synonyms

4 synonyms
to modulate a tone's frequency:trill
Close in meaning
  • sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below:trillquaver
  • sing by changing register; sing by yodeling:yodeldescant

Word family

4 related words
Relatedwarbler
Derivedoutwarblewarblywarble fly

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wantonwarA1warblerwarcraftwardB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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