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# crooning

verb form (croon, croons, crooned, crooning)

«crooning» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To croon is to sing or hum softly and gently, often to a baby or while working. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooning/#m1)

### In the lessons

a soft, low song or hum, in stories sung quietly by a mother or a figure at work

### Examples

- The mother was crooning to her baby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooning/#x1)
- The child was crooning happily in the morning sunlight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooning/#x2)
- He hummed and crooned as he worked the wood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooning/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crooning» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooning/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crooning» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crooning.html) on Mova free.