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RUMBLING
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A loud low dull continuous noise
Example:
they heard the rumbling of thunder
Synonyms:
grumble; grumbling; rumble; rumbling
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rumbling" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
rumble (to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds)
rumble (make a low noise)
II. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound
Example:
the rumbling rolling sound of thunder
Synonyms:
grumbling; rumbling
Classified under:
Similar:
full ((of sound) having marked deepness and body)
III. (verb)
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-ing form of the verb rumble
Context examples:
Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here, among pillows enough for six, I soon fell asleep in a blissful condition, and dreamed of ancient Rome, Steerforth, and friendship, until the early morning coaches, rumbling out of the archway underneath, made me dream of thunder and the gods.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue fires, in the light of which danced the hula dancers to the barbaric love- calls of the singers, who chanted to tinkling ukuleles and rumbling tom- toms.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This and a bellowing, roaring, rumbling voice made up my first impression of the notorious Professor Challenger.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
