different between rumble vs croak

English

Alternative forms

• rummle, rommle (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome +? -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”), all of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???mb(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?mb?l

Noun

rumble (plural rumbles)

1. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

2. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

   • Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

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Verb

rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)

1. (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

2. (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

3. (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
4. (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
5. (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
6. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
7. (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.

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Interjection

rumble

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

Anagrams

• Blumer, Bulmer, lumber, umbrel

English

Etymology

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English cr?cettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative cr?cettung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *kr?k- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), from Proto-Indo-European *greh?-k- (compare Latin gr?culus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kr?k, IPA^(key): /k?o?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?k, IPA^(key): /k???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

croak (plural croaks)

1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
3. The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

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Verb

croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
2. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
3. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
4. (slang) To die.
5. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.

   He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.

   • 1925, G. K. Chesterton, The Arrow of Heaven (first published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1925)

     If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.

6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

   • Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.

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