rumble

rumble is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
2. intransitive verb. To murmur; to ripple.
3. noun. A noisy report; rumor.
4. noun. A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
5. noun. A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
6. noun. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
7. transitive verb. To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
8. noun. a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
9. noun. a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
10. noun. a loud low dull continuous noise

    "they heard the rumbling of thunder"

    Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, rumbling

11. verb. to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds

    "he grumbled a rude response"

    "Stones grumbled down the cliff"

    Synonyms: growl, grumble

12. verb. make a low noise

    "rumbling thunder"

    Synonyms: grumble

Synonyms

grumble, grumbling, rumbling, growl

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rumble:

lumber, umbrel

Common word forms

rumbled, rumbler, rumbles, rumbling, rumblement

Words from these letters

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