Definition

Verb: To make a continuous, low, humming, or buzzing sound, similar to that produced by an insect like a bee or a piece of machinery.

Examples

• The old refrigerator would softly throughout the night.
• In the summer garden, bees as they move from flower to flower.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: Can be used to describe a place or situation filled with a low, constant murmur of activity or talk.
  • The conference hall bombinated with the chatter of hundreds of attendees.

Variants and Related Words

• Bombination (noun): The act or sound of bombinating; a buzzing or humming.
  • The constant bombination of the air conditioner was a soothing background noise.

Synonyms

• Buzz
• Hum
• Drone
• Whir

Related Idioms

• To bombinate in (someone's) ears: To be persistently heard or remembered as a faint sound or thought.
  • The warning from his teacher continued to bombinate in his ears long after class had ended.

Verb

1. make a buzzing sound
   • bees were buzzing around the hive