MEANING
To make a low, bubbling or gurgling sound while flowing or moving.
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Words that belong together
- stream burbles
- burble over stones
- burbling water
On the page
The stream burbled over a ledge.
Water burbled beneath the little footbridge.
We could hear the spring burbling inside the hollow.
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Word forms
- Base
- burble / burbles
- Past tense
- burbled
- Past participle
- burbled
- Present participle
- burbling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- burble / burbles
- Present continuous
- am/is/are burbling
- Present perfect
- have/has burbled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been burbling
- Past
- burbled
- Past continuous
- was/were burbling
- Past perfect
- had burbled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been burbling
- Future
- will burble / burbles
- Future continuous
- will be burbling
- Future perfect
- will have burbled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been burbling
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Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Playful or descriptive; in the selected sense, especially useful for small streams. Speech uses are secondary. Verb [base, third-person, past, past participle, -ing]: burble, burbles, burbled, burbled, burbling.
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