1 ~ (at / to sb) (about / at sb/sth) to complain about sb/sth in a bad-tempered way:
[V] She's always grumbling to me about how badly she's treated at work. * [Vspeech] 'I'll just have to do it myself,' he grumbled. * [Vthat] They kept grumbling that they were cold.
2 [V] to make a deep continuous sound
SYNRUMBLE:
Thunder grumbled in the distance.
grumbler noun
Part of speech: noun
1 ~ (about sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for grumble is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grumble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grumble is tagged as verb.
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