rumble
See also: Rumble
English
Alternative forms
- rummle, rommle (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome + -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”).
Noun
rumble (plural rumbles)
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- A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
- The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- (slang) A street fight or brawl.
- A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
- Charles Dickens
- Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.
- Charles Dickens
Translations
low, heavy, continuous sound
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street fight or brawl
Verb
rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)
- To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
- If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
- I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
- To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- To move while making a rumbling noise.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
- (video games, intransitive) Of a game controller: to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
- (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
- (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
- Spenser
- to rumble gently down with murmur soft
- Spenser
Translations
to make a low pitched noise
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to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
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to move while making a rumbling noise
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