Synonyms for warble
ˈwɔr bəlwar·ble

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1. warbleverb

   Synonyms:
   trill

2. warbleverb

   to modulate a tone's frequency

   Synonyms:
   trill

3. warbleverb

   to sing like a bird, especially with trills.

   Synonyms:
   trill

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1. warble

   To sing is primarily and ordinarily to utter a succession of articulate musical sounds with the human voice. The word has come to include any succession of musical sounds; we say the bird or the rivulet sings; we speak of "the singing quality" of an instrument, and by still wider extension of meaning we say the teakettle or the cricket sings. To chant is to sing in solemn and somewhat uniform cadence; chant is ordinarily applied to non-metrical religious compositions. To carol is to sing joyously, and to warble (kindred with whirl) is to sing with trills or quavers, usually also with the idea of joy. Carol and warble are especially applied to the singing of birds. To chirp is to utter a brief musical sound, perhaps often repeated in the same key, as by certain small birds, insects, etc. To chirrup is to utter a somewhat similar sound; the word is often used of a brief, sharp sound uttered as a signal to animate or rouse a horse or other animal. To hum is to utter murmuring sounds with somewhat monotonous musical cadence, usually with closed lips; we speak also of the hum of machinery, etc.

   Synonyms:
   carol, chant, chirp, chirrup, hum, sing

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1. warbleverb

   a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly

2. warble, trill, quaververb

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

   Synonyms:
   trill, waver, quaver, yodel, descant

3. yodel, warble, descantverb

   sing by changing register; sing by yodeling

   "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"

   Synonyms:
   trill, quaver, descant, yodel

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1. warbleverb

   Synonyms:
   sing (with turns or trills like a bird), trill, carol, chant, hum, hymn

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1. warblenoun

   Synonyms:
   trill, carol, yodel

2. warbleverb

   Synonyms:
   trill, carol, yodel

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1. Martha Mitchell:

   As I recall, there was this one: I love it's gentle warble, I love it's gentle flow; I love to wind my tongue up; And I love to let it go.

2. Izaak Walton:

   Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.