Croon /(kro͡on)/
Croon
v. i.
- To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.]
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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.
- To sing in a soft, evenly modulated manner adapted to amplifying systems, especially to sing in such a way with exaggerated sentimentality.
Croon
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Crooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Crooning
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To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
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To soothe by singing softly.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
Croon
n.
- A low, continued moan; a murmur.
- A low singing; a plain, artless melody.