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# rumble

verb (rumble, rumbles, rumbled, rumbling); noun (a rumble, rumbles)

«rumble» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To rumble is to make a long, low, deep sound, like thunder or a big truck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#m1)
2. (noun) A rumble is such a low rolling sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#m2)
3. (UK informal) To rumble someone is to find out their secret or trick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#m3)

### In the lessons

Used in stories and weather: thunder rumbles, a volcano rumbles before it erupts, a hungry tummy rumbles. In science about sound: low-pitched sounds and vibrations. A "rumble strip" on a road makes the car rumble to warn the driver.

### Examples

- Thunder rumbled in the distance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x1)
- My tummy is rumbling; it's lunch time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x2)
- The train rumbled over the bridge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x3)
- We heard a rumble before the volcano erupted. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x4)
- The ground rumbled during the earthquake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x5)
- Mum rumbled our plan to stay up late. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x6)
- The trucks rumbled past the house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x7)
- “We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through the darkness of the forest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb: rumbled, rumbling (drop the e). It is an onomatopoeic word: it sounds like what it means.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «rumble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rumble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/rumble.html) on Mova free.