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Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of drone.
  2. n. a dull humming

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an unchanging intonation

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English drān.From drone1 (from the bee's humming sound).

Examples

  • “Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten.”

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  • “The droning was the steady sound of their engines.”

    The Dreamthief's Daughter

  • “No longer was it a droning, meaningless march of disconnected words.”

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  • “But these were the things that sort of made people stop while they're kind of droning on.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2008

  • “And what we ` ve heard him say, in a long and kind of droning, probably very emotional tone -- I mean, let ` s consider what he ` s been through -- thanked all his attorneys, said they came on board with "short dough and long hours," were his exact words, and that he was broke and needed a job.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2005

  • “Dr. Johnson's _Dictionary_ does not insert the word "droning" or”

    Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850

  • “When you feel a physical pain, add the formula _ "It is going away ...", _ very quickly repeated, in a kind of droning voice, placing your hand on the part where you feel the pain, or on the forehead, if it is a mental distress.”

    Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English

  • “One or two needles, with coarse, black thread dangling to them, were stuck in on his shoulder; and, as he busily darned on the little stocking, he kept up a kind of droning intermixture of chanting and talking to the child on his knee.”

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  • “The disc begins with a similar kind of droning weirdness, although far less "difficult.”

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  • “Origins places its focus firmly with the latter, although someone in advertising clearly recognized the cultural divide, setting the trailer to the same kind of droning synth-rock that plagued the English dub of”

    Verbal Spew

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  • GHibbs My adjectival use: 'Droning planes annoy me.' Aug 22, 2011

‘droning’ has been looked up 703 times, added to 2 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 9.