growl vs rumble

growl

noun
  • The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach. 

  • A similar sound made by a human. 

  • An aggressive grumbling. 

  • A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. 

  • A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument. 

verb
  • To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound. 

  • To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. 

  • Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. 

  • To send a user a message via the Growl software library. 

  • To express (something) by growling. 

rumble

noun
  • A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. 

  • A street fight or brawl. 

  • A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. 

verb
  • To move while making a rumbling noise. 

  • To make a low, heavy, continuous sound. 

  • To fight; to brawl. 

  • to provide haptic feedback by vibrating. 

  • To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine. 

  • To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour. 

intj
  • An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise 

How often have the words growl and rumble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )