Synonyms of the word

grumble

• n. (onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.
• n. The sound made by a hungry stomach.
• n. A complaint.
• v. (intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low…
• v. (transitive) To utter in a grumbling fashion.

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

complaint

• n. A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.
• n. (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim…
• n. (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the…
• n. A consumer complaint.
• n. A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.

croak

• n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
• n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
• v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
• v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
• v. (slang) To die.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
• v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

gnarl

• n. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
• n. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
• n. (mathematics) The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous…
• v. (transitive) To knot or twist something.
• v. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

grouch

• n. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
• n. One who is grumpy or irritable.
• v. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.

growl

• n. The deep, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal; a grumbling sound.
• n. The sound made by a hungry stomach.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
• v. (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
• v. (software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.

grumbling

• v. present participle of grumble.
• n. complaining.
• n. rumbling.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

murmur

• n. (countable) Low or indistinct sounds or speech.
• n. (medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the…
• n. A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or…
• v. (intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.
• v. (transitive) To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter.

murmuring

• v. present participle of murmur.
• n. A sound that murmurs.
• n. A complaint against something.

mutter

• n. A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
• v. To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips…
• v. To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
• v. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
• n. (Indian cuisine) Peas.

muttering

• v. present participle of mutter.
• n. Something that is muttered.
• n. A rumour.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

rumble

• interj. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.
• n. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
• n. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
• n. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
• n. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
• v. To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
• v. To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
• v. To move while making a rumbling noise.
• v. (slang) To fight; to brawl.
• v. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
• v. (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.

rumbling

• adj. Deep and slow sounding.
• n. The sound of complaint.
• n. A deep low noise.
• v. present participle of rumble.

scold

• n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
• v. To rebuke.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.