What's the difference between sough and susurrus?

Sough


Definition:

  • (n.) A sow.
  • (n.) A small drain; an adit.
  • (v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
  • (v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.
  • (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
  • (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David first sough psychological help at Oxford when, miserably unhappy, he was introduced by his friend Charles Collins to the psychiatrist and Freudian psychoanalyst RD Gillespie.
  • (2) No commitment has been given to release the much-sough-tafter business case or the contract itself once it is signed.
  • (3) Evidence for selective extravasation of thoracic duct lymph-borne cells, derived from rats with adjuvant disease, within joints of normal or adjuvant arthritic recipients was sough by adoptive transfer of radiolabeled cells.
  • (4) It is of the greatest simplicity, and it is sough by asking the subject to follow the finger of the examiner.

Susurrus


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From this distance – approximately 900 metres – the susurrus of slowly turning blades sounds like a distant country road, minus the intermittent heavy rumble of semitrailers that are a fixture in less isolated rural areas.

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