transcription, транскрипция: [ rʌmb(ə)l ]
( rumbles, rumbling, rumbled)
1.
A rumble is a low continuous noise.
The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic...
N-COUNT : oft N of n
2.
If a vehicle rumbles somewhere, it moves slowly forward while making a low continuous noise.
A bus rumbled along the road at the top of the path...
VERB : V adv / prep
3.
If something rumbles , it makes a low, continuous noise.
The sky, swollen like a black bladder, rumbled and crackled...
VERB : V
4.
If your stomach rumbles , it makes a vibrating noise, usually because you are hungry.
Her stomach rumbled. She hadn’t eaten any breakfast.
VERB : V
5.
If someone is rumbled , the truth about them or something they were trying to hide is discovered. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
When his fraud was rumbled he had just £20.17 in the bank.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed