(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