rumble• What began as a rumble became a powerfulroar as the volcanoerupted.• This drew a rumble of protest, as Tyler had expected it would.• Are deeperrumbles in the offing?• I sat there contented a minute that night, quite lost in the maddeningrumble.• The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scalerumble.• No sound except the rumble of an invisible train clattering through the night.• Why he never even heard the rumbles.• Soon the tunnelsechoed to the rumble of many booted feet.• The rumble of the train going by woke me up.• He turned the engine over, the warmrumble of his Babyrejuvenating him.
distant rumble• A new sound was growing in the tunnel, a distant rumble.• There was a distant rumbling and crashing, which was intensified and reflected by the mountainslopes.• There was a long, distant rumble.• I could faintly hear the distant rumble of commutertraffic from my bedroom - a reminder of what I had temporarily escaped.• The only noise was the distant rumble of traffic on the coastal road.
Originrumble1
(1300-1400) Probably from early Dutchrommelen, from the sound