To make a soft sibilant sound of this kind, as a body rushing through air or water, or the wind among trees, etc.

intransitive. To make a soft rushing sound, as wind, flowing water, waves, etc.; to move with such a sound. (Cf. hush, v.3) Chiefly in vbl._n. ppl.…

intransitive. To move with a swish (see swish, n.1 1); to make the sound expressed by ‘swish’.

intransitive. To utter or emit a dull soft sibilant sound, like that of something rushing through the air; to move rapidly with a rushing sound.

intransitive. To make a noise expressed by the syllable ‘swoosh’.

(intransitive) to make this sound.

To make a soft, shushing sound; to move with the sound of a rush of air.