Sough

Definition: Sough

Sough

Verb

1. Place (seeds) in the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds".

2. Indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened".

3. Introduce into an environment; "sow suspicion or beliefs".

Date "sough" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Sough

Synonyms: groan (v), moan (v), seed (v), sow (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conduit	Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.
Uncleanness	Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sough

English words defined with "sough": Swimbel, Swough. (references)

Etymologies containing "sough": Surf. (references)

"Sough" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Sough" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	62.5%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	37.5%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shushurimë (murmur, rash, rustle), fëshfërij (murmur, rustle, whisper). (various references)

Arabic		‏همهم (hum, mutter, repine), ‏تنهدة عميقة, ‏أنين (groan, moan, plaint, sighing, whimper, whine), ‏أن (groan, moan, that, whimper, whine). (various references)

Bulgarian		стенене, стена (dike, groan, moan, side, sigh, wall, whine), фучене (whiz, whizz), фуча (hoot, scream, spit, whiz, whizz), шептене. (various references)

Czech		skuèet (screech, ululate, yowl). (various references)

Farsi		زمزمه یاخش خش کردن , صدای زمزمه یااه . (various references)

French		murmurer, murmure, gémissement, gémir. (various references)

German		rauschen (boom, hiss, murmur, murmuring, noise, resound, roar, rush, rustle, sweep, swish, swoosh, whoosh). (various references)

Greek		σύριγμα (sizzle, whiz, zip), θρόισμα (rustle, rustling), θροίζω (rustle), ψίθυροσ (murmur, rustle, whisper). (various references)

Hebrew		לרשרש (rustle, swish), רשרוש (murmur, ripple, rustle, rustling). (various references)

Hungarian		susogás (rustle, rustling, susurration, susurrus, whisper, whispering), sóhajtás (groan, sigh). (various references)

Italian		sussurrare (murmur, whisper, whisper to), gemere (bleat, groan, moan, wail, whine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�り (bellow, groan, growl, howl, roar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うなり (bellow, groan, growl, howl, roar). (various references)

Manx		soghal (groan, groaning, moan, moaning, sigh, sob, sobbing, surge, whimper), osney (groan, sigh), osnaghey (moan, sigh). (various references)

Pig Latin		oughsay

Portuguese		sussurro (buzz, croon, embroidery, hum, murmur, purl, ripple, rustle, susurration, swish, whirr, whisper, whispering), sussurrar (buzz, ha, hum, murmur, round, rustle, swish, whisper), sarjeta (fox earth, gully, gutter, kennel, trough), paul (marsh, moor, morass, moss, muskeg, quagmire), pântano (bog, fen, flush, marish, marsh, mere, moor, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, swamp), murmurar (bicker, brawl, bubble, coo, croon, gossip, groan, grumble, gurgle, ha, hum, lip, murmur, mutter, prattle, purl, repine, whisper), murmúrio (babblement, brawl, breath, breeze, bubble, buzz, chatter, croon, embroidery, murmur, mutter, purl, ripple, susurration, whisper, whispering), fosso de escoamento (drain-ditch). (various references)

Romanian		vuiet (din, hubbub, hum, noise, roar, roaring, rumble), murmura (babble, Bicker, brawl, breathe, chatter, croak, growl, grumble, gurgle, kick, moan, mumble, murmur, mutter, Pearl, prattle, purl, ripple, round, rustle, warble, whisper), fremãta (Bate, bustle, fuss, murmur, roar, rustle), freamãt (bustle, commotion, hum, lisp, murmur, quiver, riot, rioting, riotousness, roaring, rush, rustle, rustling, stir, storm, thrill, tremor, tumult, uproar, vibration, whir), foşni (murmur, rustle, swish), foşnet (lisp, murmur, rustle, swish). (various references)

Russian		шелестеть, шелест (susurration, susurruses). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žamorenje (babblement, whispering), žamor (gurgle, murmur). (various references)

Spanish		susurro (murmur, ripple, rustle, rustling, sigh, susurration, whisper, whispering), susurrar (murmur, rustle, sigh, whisper). (various references)

Swedish		susa (murmur, sigh, sing, susurrate, swish, swoosh, whirl, whiz, whizz). (various references)

Thai		เกิ�"เสียงซู่ เหมือนเสียงลมพั�"ต้นไม้. (various references)

Turkish		uğultu (boom, buzzing, clatter, howl, hum, humming, ping, roar, roaring, singing), uğuldamak (boom, buzz, howl, hum, murmur, ping, roar, scream, sing, whistle), uğuldama (humming, roar, roaring, whistling), inlemek (grizzle, groan, howl, moan, wail, whimper, yammer), hışırtı (crackling, crunch, frou-frou, rustle, rustling, swish, whisper), hışırdamak (Crinkle, crunch, rustle, sizzle, swish, whisper). (various references)

Ukrainian		чутка (bruit, hearsay, noise, rumor, rumour, scuttlebutt, whisper, wind, word), шерех (whisper), шарудіти (chirr, grit), глибокий подих, важко і шумно дихати. (various references)

Vietnamese		tiếng x� o xạc (susurration), tiếng rì r� o (murmur). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sough": soughed, soughing, soughs, sought. (additional references)
	Words containing "sough": besought, resought, unsought. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sough" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gough, kough, mough, nough, ough, Saigh, scough, scourgh, Seugi, Shuaghr, sluagh, slugh, soeh, sogun, soig, sorug, souge, stough, suff, sugh, Susuga, vough, zough. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: gosh, gush, hogs, hugs, shog, sugh, ughs.
	-2 letters: gos, hog, hug, ohs, sou, ugh.
	-3 letters: go, ho, oh, os, sh, so, uh, us.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: boughs, coughs, doughs, ghouls, loughs, oughts, roughs, shogun, slough, soughs, sought, toughs.
	+2 letters: choughs, cloughs, enoughs, gauchos, goulash, gumshoe, gunshot, hognuts, housing, hugeous, mugshot, noughts, outgush, ploughs, quahogs, quohogs, roguish, shoguns, shotgun, sloughs, sloughy, sorghum, soughed, troughs, voguish.
	+3 letters: baghouse, besought, boroughs, broguish, bughouse, bushgoat, choragus, choregus, chousing, coughers, doghouse, droughts, gashouse, ghoulies, ghoulish, gouaches, grouches, gumshoed, gumshoes, gunshots, hangouts, hocusing, homburgs, housings, mugshots, outsight, pishogue, resought, roughens, roughers, roughest, roughish, shogunal, shotguns, shouting, sloughed, sorghums, souchong, soughing, southing, thoughts, toughens, toughest, toughies, toughish, unsought, yoghurts, youngish.
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