Rumble

intj, name, noun, verb, slang

intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a fight between rival gangs of adolescents wordnet
  3. 3
    A street fight or brawl. slang
  4. 4
    a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage wordnet
  5. 5
    A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
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  1. 6
    a loud low dull continuous noise wordnet
  2. 7
    A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. dated

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a low, heavy, continuous sound. intransitive

    "If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble."

  2. 2
    to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds wordnet
  3. 3
    To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour. transitive

    "The police is going to rumble your hideout."

  4. 4
    make a low noise wordnet
  5. 5
    To move while making a rumbling noise. intransitive

    "The truck rumbled over the rough road."

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  1. 6
    To fight; to brawl. intransitive, slang
  2. 7
    To provide haptic feedback by vibrating. intransitive
  3. 8
    To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine. transitive
  4. 9
    To murmur; to ripple. intransitive, obsolete

    "The trembling streams which wont in channels clear To rumble gently down with murmur soft,[…]"

Intj
  1. 1
    An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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grumblegrumblegrumblingrumblingactionaerial combat

Antonyms

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snap

Example

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"About noon the sky darkened, a breeze sprang up, and a low rumble announced the approaching storm."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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)).

Etymology 2

A variant of Rumbold, Rumbel or Rumpel.

Related phrases

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