rumble

• rummle, rommle (dialectal)

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”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbəl

rumble (plural rumbles)

1. 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.

2. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
   • Charles Dickens

     Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)

1. 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.

2. To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

   The police is going to rumble your hideout.

3. To move while making a rumbling noise.

   The truck rumbled over the rough road.

4. (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
5. (video games, intransitive) Of a game controller: to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
6. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
7. (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
   • Spenser

     to rumble gently down with murmur soft

rumble

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

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