rumble
Plural: rumbles
Noun
- a loud low dull continuous noise
- a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
- a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
- A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
- A street fight or brawl.
- 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.
Verb
Verb Forms: rumbled, rumbling, rumbles
- To make a deep, continuous, rolling sound.
- make a low noise
- to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
- "he grumbled a rude response"
- "Stones grumbled down the cliff"
- To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
- To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
- To move while making a rumbling noise.
- To fight; to brawl.
- To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
- To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
- To murmur; to ripple.
Intj
- An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
Examples
- His stomach would RUMBLE loudly as he pondered his next Scrabble move.
- I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
- If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
Origin / 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”), all of imitative origin.
Synonyms
gang fight, growl, grumble, grumbling, rumbling, beating, drumming, rataplan, rubadub, rumble
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
rumble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrumble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rumble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary