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# rumble

«rumble» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a long, low, deep sound, like thunder or a big truck** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) To rumble is to make a long, low, deep sound, like thunder or a big truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#m1)

2) (noun) A rumble is such a low rolling sound. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x1)
- My tummy is rumbling; it's lunch time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x2)
- The train rumbled over the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x3)
- We heard a rumble before the volcano erupted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x4)
- The ground rumbled during the earthquake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x5)
- Mum rumbled our plan to stay up late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/#x6)
- The trucks rumbled past the house. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/17/)
- [Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/15/)
- [Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/15/)
- [Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body: the purr.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/2/)
- [Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through their feet, and they may sense distant thunderstorms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rumble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.