rumble
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
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.
Compare typologically Russian громи́ть (gromítʹ), погро́м (pogróm), разгро́м (razgróm) (akin to гром (grom), греме́ть (gremétʹ), громыха́ть (gromyxátʹ)). Also compare гро́хнуть (gróxnutʹ) (akin to гро́хот (gróxot)).
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: rumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rummle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rommle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rummle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rommle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rummle
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: rommle
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
pos: noun
examples: The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
gloss: A street fight or brawl.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.
"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.
gloss: To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
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.
gloss: To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police is going to rumble your hideout.
gloss: To move while making a rumbling noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The truck rumbled over the rough road.
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.
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.
gloss: To fight; to brawl.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To murmur; to ripple.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The trembling streams which wont in channels clear
To rumble gently down with murmur soft,[…]
gloss: An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
pos: intj
Synonyms: beating
drumming
grumbling
rataplan
rubadub
rumble
rumbling
Antonyms: snap
Related words: humming
reverberation
Derived words: headset rumble
rumblement
rumble seat
rumblesome
rumble strip
rumble-tumble
rumbly
let's get ready to rumble
rumble on
rumbler
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