rumble

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rum|ble /r'ʌmbəl/ (rumbles rumbling rumbled)
1 [N-COUNT] oft N of n
A rumble is a low continuous noise.
The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic...
2 [VERB] V adv/prep
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...
3 [VERB] V
If something rumbles, it makes a low, continuous noise.
The sky, swollen like a black bladder, rumbled and crackled...
4 [VERB] V
If your stomach rumbles, it makes a vibrating noise, usually because you are hungry.
Her stomach rumbled. She hadn't eaten any breakfast.
5 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
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.rumble on
[PHRASAL VERB] V P
If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled. (BRIT JOURNALISM)
And still the row rumbles on over who is to blame for the steadily surging crime statistics...

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