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Word Meanings - RUMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer. 2. To murmur; to ripple. To rumble gently down with murmur

Additional info about word: RUMBLE

1. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer. 2. To murmur; to ripple. To rumble gently down with murmur soft. Spenser.

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