rumble
About 1.05 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun 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.
- noun A street fight or brawl.
- noun A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- noun A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
- verb To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
- verb To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- verb To move while making a rumbling noise.
The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- verb To fight; to brawl.
Similar words
grumble growl grumbling gang fight roar brawl scuffle tussle trouble beat
Often followed by
of and in seat that from as on through
Word family
rumbled rumbler rumblers rumbles rumbling
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