Repine vs Grumble - What's the difference?

Repine is a related term of grumble.

As verbs the difference between repine and grumble

is that repine is while grumble is to make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

As a noun grumble is

(onomatopoeia) a low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.

repine

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en-verb)

*, II.3.6:

But many times we complain, repine , and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.

* Alexander Pope

What if the head, the eye, or ear repined / To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?

* 1958 , John W. Peterson, Night of Miracles :

no more need men on earth repine

* 1988 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :

Beatrix invited me no more to tea but I did not greatly repine .

To fail; to wane.

* Spenser

Repining courage yields no foot to foe.

References

* “ †re?pine, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989 * “ repine, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989 * “ repine, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2009 * “ repine, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2009

grumble

English

Noun

(en noun)

(onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.

The sound made by a hungry stomach.

A complaint.

That whiner is never without a grumble to share.

Derived terms

* grumbly

Verb

(grumbl)

To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

The distant thunder grumbles .

* {{quote-book

, year=1995 , author=Terry C. Johnston , title=Dance on the Wind , page=15 , passage=It made his stomach grumble in protest to think the mule was eating, and here he was worrying about her with an empty belly of his own.}}

To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.

He grumbles about the food constantly, but has yet to learn to cook.

To utter in a grumbling fashion.

* 2001 , Harry Willcox Pfanz, Gettysburg — the first day?

He grumbled that there was no grain "in the country" and that people were talking instead of working to provide it.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* grumbler