Grumble (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
Synonyms:
grumble; grumbling; murmur; murmuring; mutter; muttering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grumble" is a kind of...):
complaint (an expression of grievance or resentment)
Derivation:
grumble (make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath)
grumble (show one's unhappiness or critical attitude)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A loud low dull continuous noise
Example:
they heard the rumbling of thunder
Synonyms:
grumble; grumbling; rumble; rumbling
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grumble" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
grumble (to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds)
grumble (make a low noise)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
Example:
she grumbles when she feels overworked
Synonyms:
croak; gnarl; grumble; murmur; mutter
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "grumble" is one way to...):
complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)
Sentence frames:
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Derivation:
grumble (a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone)
grumbler (a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining)
grumbling (a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude
Example:
We grumbled about the increased work load
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "grumble" is one way to...):
complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
grumble (a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone)
grumbler (a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining)
Sense 3
Meaning:
To utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
Example:
Stones grumbled down the cliff
Synonyms:
growl; grumble; rumble
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "grumble" is one way to...):
emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
grumble; grumbling (a loud low dull continuous noise)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Make a low noise
Example:
rumbling thunder
Synonyms:
grumble; rumble
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "grumble" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence examples:
Cars grumble in the streets
The streets grumble with cars
Derivation:
grumble; grumbling (a loud low dull continuous noise)
Context examples:
Then at last Summerlee, with his sneer and his pipe, would move forwards, and Challenger would come rolling and grumbling after.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You have done a great deal of work on this mission over the past two years, and while it might not have always been easy, as the practical soldier that you are, you powered through with grace, never with so much as a grumble.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The skipper was not displeased with the compliment, and went on:—When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble; some o' them, the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had been put on board by a queer lookin' old man just before we had started frae London.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Humph! I thought as much,” grumbled the smith.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I am a man who may grutch and grumble, but when I have set my face to do a thing I will not turn my back upon it until it be done.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Johnson, looking on, still continued his grumbling.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have not been in town half-a-dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"Well, if he was, he finished himself off by that affair," Haythorne grumbled.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)