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rumble

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1. rumble - Noun

2. rumble - Verb

3. rumble - Interjection

4. Rumble - Proper noun

Meaning

To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.

To murmur; to ripple.

A noisy report; rumor.

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.

A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me. Stephen Fry

Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything. John Cena

We have a date to rumble with stupidity, ignorance, prejudice, laziness, hatred, and greed. Margaret Cho

That night I slept there, but the next morning I began to hate the place. With her there it was part of a dream; without her, it was a house. I packed my things into the rumble seat and drove back to Los Angeles. John Fante

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. Robert Jordan

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women's silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt. Thomas Sankara

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