Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive)To grumble.

  2. (transitive)To grumble at or to.

Origin

From be- (“about”) + grumble.

From be- (“about”) + grumble.

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Forms

begrumbles, begrumbling, begrumbled, begrumbled
Base formbegrumble · to begrumble
3rd person singularbegrumbles
Present participlebegrumbling
Past simplebegrumbled
Past participlebegrumbled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybegrumble
he, she, itbegrumbles

Past simpleLesson

all personsbegrumbled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave begrumbled
he, she, ithas begrumbled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill begrumble

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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