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Mumble vs Bellow - What's the difference?

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Mumble is a related term of bellow.


As verbs the difference between mumble and bellow

is that mumble is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate while bellow is to make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.

As nouns the difference between mumble and bellow

is that mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization while bellow is the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.

mumble

English

Verb

  • (intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
    • Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Peace, you mumbling fool.
  • * Otway
    • A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
  • To chew something gently with closed lips.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety peg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
    • All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
  • A low tone of voice.
    • ''He spoke in a mumble .

    bellow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
  • * Dryden
    • the bellowing voice of boiling seas
  • To shout in a deep voice.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.}}

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