When you whisper, you say something very quietly, using your breath rather than your throat, so that only one person can hear you. `Keep your voice down,' I whispered She sat on Rossi's knee as he whispered in her ear He whispered the message to David Somebody whispered that films like that were illegal She whispered his name. Whisper is also a noun. Men were talking in whispers in every office
To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound
To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper