| 单词 | rumble |
| 释义 | rumble (once / 690 pages) 1vn 2n 3n Are you ready to rumble? To rumble is to throw down, or fight. If you hear a truck rumble down your street, don’t put up your dukes — to rumble also means to make a low, deep sound. Thunder rumbles just before you see lightning flash, and dogs sometimes rumble a low warning growl when they see someone unfamiliar. As a noun, rumble can mean "a low sound," “a seat in the back of a carriage” (the rumble seat) or " a street fight." It's a little old fashioned today to call a gang brawl a rumble, but if you've ever seen the movie "West Side Story," you've seen the rumble between the Jets and the Sharks. WORD FAMILYrumble: rumbled, rumbles, rumbling+/rumbling: rumblingly, rumblings USAGE EXAMPLESWhile I meandered through my twenties, locked in my pseudo-bohemian stance, the remnants of that money rumbled along. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) At the same time, Solimini wrote down every time that he heard the loud rumble on the first floor of his house, five blocks away. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The “Fridge” captivated the football world when the 300-pounder rumbled for a Chicago touchdown against the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football in 1985. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1v utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds Syn|Hyper growl, grumble emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 2v make a low noise rumbling thunder Syn|Hyper grumble go, sound make a certain noise or sound 3n a loud low dull continuous noise 2Syn|Hyper grumble, grumbling, rumbling noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) n a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage 3Hyper seat any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit) n a fight between rival gangs of adolescents Syn|Hyper gang fight combat, fight, fighting, scrap the act of fighting; any contest or struggle |
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