Clunk

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dull sound; a thump.
  • n. A blow that produces a dull sound.
  • n. Informal A stupid, dull person.
  • verb-intransitive. To make or move with a clunk.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike something so as to make a dull sound.
  • v. To strike so as to make a dull sound: "Icy weather affected the clock's mechanism and for several hours Big Ben clunked instead of bonged the time changesā€ ( Christian Science Monitor).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact
  • v. to make such a sound
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To emit a sudden hollow, gurgling sound, such as is made when a cork is quickly pulled out of the neck of a bottle.
  • n. A sound such as is expressed by the imitative verb clunk; the gurgling sound made by liquor when poured from a bottle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
  • v. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
  • Verb Form
    clunked    clunking    clunks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sound    go   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Funk    Monk    blunk    bunk    chunk    crunk    debunk    drunk    dunk    flunk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thunk    whump    whoosh    thwack    clank    clack    plop    whir    thud    whomp