Definitions for strum

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Spelling: [struhm]

IPA: /strʌm/

Strum is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in strum (mrstu).

Definitions for strum

noun

1. the act of strumming.
2. the sound produced by strumming.
3. a strainer, as at the inlet of a system of tubing.

verb (used with object)

1. to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
2. to produce (notes, a melody, etc.) by such playing:

verb (used without object)

1. to play on a stringed musical instrument by running the fingers lightly across the strings.

Origin of strum

1765-75; perhaps blend of string and thrum¹

Examples for strum

Being able to strum on the mandoline settled it for me, and jolly thankful I was, too.

It had not the harps of the trees to strum on, but it made shift with the corners of the houses.

He shifted his stool towards the middle of the piano and began to strum again.

So persuaded was the poor fellow of this, that he did nothing all night but jangle and strum away.

I have all the more right to talk of music because I do not strum on the piano as you do.

When Guy answered affirmatively, the stranger brought Guy to his apartment to strum some tunes for his wife.

She is ingenious, She used to strum ballads to the moon on my adolescent nerves.

An airy acoustic guitar begins to strum; a synthesized orchestra begins to swell.

Almost every working-man has his girls taught to strum the piano.

I'm made to strum on the piano for an hour every day, but I hate it.