rumbleverb
uk/ˈrʌm.bəl/us/ˈrʌm.bəl/rumble verb (SOUND)
[ I ] to make a continuous low sound:
Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.
Thunder rumbled in the distance.
Convoys of tanks rumbled (= moved while rumbling) through the city streets.
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- swish
- thud
- ting
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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rumble verb (DISCOVER)
[ T usually passive ] UK informal to discover the true facts about someone or something secret and often illegal:
His boss eventually rumbled him, and he was sacked.
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Finding and discovering
- a fishing expedition idiom
- alight
- ascertain
- break fresh/new ground idiom
- breakthrough
- catch sb red-handed idiom
- flush
- get hold of idiom
- get wind of sth idiom
- happen
- happen on/upon sth/sb
- have a (good) nose for sth idiom
- rediscover
- root sth/sb out
- run sb/sth to ground idiom
- scent
- search
- search sth/sb out
- smell
- stumble
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rumble verb (FIGHT)
[ I ] Australian English informal to take part in a physical fight
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
- slug it out idiom
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rumble
noun [ C ] ukus
We could hear the rumble of distant guns/thunder.
Phrasal verb(s)
rumble on