vroom

Examples

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• The car goes vroom-vroom!

  Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

• Unlike the Prius and other hybrids, this thing has some vroom too.

  Blog text (4)

• -I'm going to buy a sports car, vroom vroom.

  Stay Out Stay Alive (2019)

• This is a tale among many tales of all things that go vroom vroom.

  Blog text (30)

• You know, like on the street... with the honk-honk and the vroom-vroom and no walking involved.

  Monsters, Inc. (2001)

• Suddenly, an extra-wide pickup vrooms past Josh, cutting off the driver (Seymour) next to him.

  Fiction book (2001)

• He remembered that automakers such as GM and Toyota had tried to install sound systems that would simulate the vroom of a powerful gasoline engine to attract the testosterone crowd.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The race car made a loud vroom as it sped down the track.

• As the motorcycle zoomed past, I could hear its powerful vroom from blocks away.

• The new sports car's engine let out a thrilling vroom as it accelerated quickly.

Synonyms

R

roar

vsvroom

142 1.0

A loud deep continuous sound made by animals, crowds, or machines

is the loud engine noise produced when a vehicle runs very fast

R

roaring

vsvroom

30 3.4

A deep loud sound like an animal or thunder

is the same noise but specifically from a vehicle's engine at high speed

R

rumble

vsvroom

29 3.1

A low, continuous sound you can feel

is louder and sharper as the engine noise when a vehicle moves very fast

V

voom

vsvroom

5 9.9

A sudden loud rushing sound made by something moving very fast

is only the loud engine sound at high speed rather than the movement itself

How Loud

roar

142 1.0

vroom

38 8.8

rumble

29 3.1

hum

85 1.0

to purr

6 3.5

Surface Forms

Etymology