croonverb [ I or T ]
uk/kruːn/us/kruːn/to sing or talk in a sweet, low voice full of emotion
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Singing
- a cappella
- accompaniment
- accompany
- alto
- anthem
- barbershop
- dirge
- ditty
- diva
- duet
- elegy
- jingle
- refrain
- sang
- septet
- serenade
- sextet
- shanty
- tenor
- treble
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Ways of talking
Examples from literature
- I'm moving onwards—gently onwards, crooned Edward Henry to himself.
- In the sunny room upstairs Betty sat in a low rocker, crooning away to a restless bundle in her arms.
- She caught him to her breast in her strong young arms, crooned to him, and kissed his matted head.
- The boy hugged it in his arms, as he might a baby, and crooned over it.
- The old women crooned their mystic tuneless dirges.