Rumble vs Hungry - What's the difference?
rumble | hungry |
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
(slang) A street fight or brawl.
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
* Charles Dickens
To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
To move while making a rumbling noise.
(slang) To fight; to brawl.
To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
* Spenser
Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
* Charles Kingsley
* Shakespeare
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
* Shakespeare
As an interjection rumble
is an onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.As a noun rumble
is a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.As a verb rumble
is to make a low, heavy, continuous sound.As an adjective hungry is
affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.rumble
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- Kit, well wrapped, was in the rumble behind.
Verb
(en-verb)- If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble .
- I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- to rumble gently down with murmur soft
Anagrams
* *hungry
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Adjective
(er)- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
- The cruel, hungry foam.
- Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- a hungry soil
- The hungry beach.
