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A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

Example: The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.

To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.

Example: The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.

To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

Example: The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.

To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

Example: April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.