rumble

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

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

2. 2
   noun

   A low, heavy, continuous sound, like thunder or a hungry stomach.

   The rumble of passing trucks made it hard to sleep.

3. 3
   verb

   To move along while making a deep, rolling noise.

   The truck rumbled over the rough road.

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)).

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