croon /ˈkrun/
 (vi.)(vt.)低聲歌唱,低唱,低吟低唱,低吟,輕哼


 Croon v. i.
 1. To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.]
 2. To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
    Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro.   --Dickens.


 Croon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooned p. pr. & vb. n. Crooning.]
 1. To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
    Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.   --C. Bronté.
 2. To soothe by singing softly.
    The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.   --Dickens.


 Croon, n.
 1. A low, continued moan; a murmur.
 2. A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

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 croon
      v : sing softly