Humble vs. Rumble — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Humble and Rumble
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Humble
Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
Rumble
To make a deep, long, rolling sound.
Humble
Showing deferential or submissive respect
A humble apology.
Rumble
To move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound.
Humble
Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly
A humble cottage.
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Rumble
(Slang) To engage in a gang fight.
Humble
To cause to feel humble
"He was humbled by the lack of consolation in Kornblum's expression" (Michael Chabon).
Rumble
To utter with a deep, long, rolling sound.
Humble
To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.
Rumble
To polish or mix (metal parts) in a tumbling box.
Humble
Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.
Rumble
A deep, long, rolling sound.
Humble
Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
Rumble
A tumbling box.
Humble
(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of
Rumble
A luggage compartment or servant's seat in the rear of a carriage.
Humble
To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
Rumble
Pervasive, widespread expression of unrest or dissatisfaction.
Humble
To hum.
Humbling and bumbling
Rumble
A gang fight.
Humble
(transitive) hummel.
Rumble
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
Humble
An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
Rumble
(slang) A street fight or brawl.
Humble
Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
THy humble nest built on the ground.
Rumble
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
Humble
Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
She should be humble who would please.
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Rumble
(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Humble
Hornless. See Hummel.
Rumble
(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
Humble
To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plaguesHave humbled to all strokes.
The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
Rumble
(transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
The police is going to rumble your hideout.
Humble
To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.
Rumble
(intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
The truck rumbled over the rough road.
Humble
Cause to be unpretentious;
This experience will humble him
Rumble
To fight; to brawl.
Humble
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
Rumble
To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
Humble
Low or inferior in station or quality;
A humble cottage
A lowly parish priest
A modest man of the people
Small beginnings
Rumble
(transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
Humble
Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;
A humble apology
Essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions
Rumble
(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
Humble
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
Rumble
An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
Humble
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
Baseborn wretches with dirty faces
Of humble (or lowly) birth
Rumble
To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore.
The people cried and rombled up and down.
Rumble
To murmur; to ripple.
To rumble gently down with murmur soft.
Rumble
A noisy report; rumor.
Delighting ever in rumble that is new.
Rumble
A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter.
Merged in the rumble of awakening day.
Rumble
A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind.
Rumble
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
Rumble
A loud low dull continuous noise;
They heard the rumbling of thunder
Rumble
A servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
Rumble
A fight between rival gangs of adolescents
Rumble
Make a low noise;
Rumbling thunder
Rumble
To utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds;
He grumbled a rude response
Stones grumbled down the cliff
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