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Windswept vs Rumble - What's the difference?

windswept | rumble |

As an adjective windswept

is exposed to the winds.

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.

windswept

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exposed to the winds.
    • We struggled over the windswept moorland.

    rumble

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
    • The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
  • (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
    • Kit, well wrapped, was in the rumble behind.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
    • If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble .
    I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
  • To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
    • The police is going to rumble your hideout.
  • To move while making a rumbling noise.
    • The truck rumbled over the rough road.
  • (slang) To fight; to brawl.
  • To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
  • (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
  • * Spenser
    • to rumble gently down with murmur soft

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