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/ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/
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/ˈɹɐmb(ə)l/
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/ˈɹʊmb(ə)l/
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/ˈɾʌmb(ə)l/
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ˈɹʌmb(ə)l
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Noun
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
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The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
A street fight or brawl.
Usage- Slang
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Usage- Dated
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Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.
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"I never was so sorry for any thing as for Mr. Glentworth's death," said Isabella Granard, endeavouring to screen her face from a small, sharp rain, to which her place in the rumble of a travelling carriage left her quite exposed.
Verb
To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
Usage- Intransitive
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If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
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I watched him take his seat on the third row from the front, and I heard him rumble, “Nearer my God to thee,” some notes behind the rest of us.
To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
Usage- Transitive
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The police is going to rumble your hideout.
To move while making a rumbling noise.
Usage- Intransitive
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The truck rumbled over the rough road.
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As the train rumbled slowly over the Forth Bridge, the western sky was aflame with a particularly gorgeous sunset, and lights were twinkling from the small craft riding at anchor on the calm waters of the firth.
Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.
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We meet at Blackfriars station, in a rather incongruous little room with four seats, on the bridge high above the River Thames. […] Thameslink trains rumble past every minute. You can't just hear them - you feel them through the floor.
To fight; to brawl.
Usage- Intransitive
- Slang
To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
Usage- Intransitive
- of a game controller
To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
Usage- Transitive
To murmur; to ripple.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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The trembling streams which wont in channels clear To rumble gently down with murmur soft,[…]
Interjection
An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
Noun
a loud low dull continuous noise
- Broader terms
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they heard the rumbling of thunder
a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
- Broader terms
a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
- Synonyms
Verb
make a low noise
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rumbling thunder
to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
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he grumbled a rude response
Stones grumbled down the cliff