CROONED

Verb

crooned

simple past tense and past participle of croon

Anagrams

• decoron

Source: Wiktionary


CROON

Croon (krn), v. i. Etym: [OE. croinen, cf. D. kreunen to moan.

1. To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.] Jamieson.

2. To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

Croon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooned (krnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooning.]

1. To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. C. Bront

2. To soothe by singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.

Croon, n.

1. A low, continued moan; a murmur.

2. A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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