whoosh

Plural: whooshes

Noun

• the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)
• A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
• A homicide by shooting.
• A gun.

Verb

Verb Forms: whooshed, whooshing, whooshes

• To move quickly with a rushing or hissing sound.
• move with a sibilant sound
  • "He whooshed the doors open"
• move with a whooshing sound
• gush or squirt out
  • "Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well"
• To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
• To pass by quickly.
• To pass by quickly.
• To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
• To cause to pass quickly.
• To kill by gun, to shoot.

Intj

• Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
• Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

Examples

• The sound of the tiles WHOOSHING into the bag signaled the end of the round.

Synonyms

hiss, swoosh, woosh

Anagrams of whoosh