Thump

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A blow with a blunt object.
  • n. The muffled sound produced by or as if by a blow with a blunt object; a thud.
  • v. To beat with or as if with a blunt object so as to produce a muffled sound or thud.
  • v. Informal To beat soundly or thoroughly; drub.
  • verb-intransitive. To hit or fall in such a way as to produce a thump; pound.
  • verb-intransitive. To walk with heavy steps; stump.
  • verb-intransitive. To throb audibly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a blow that produces a muffled sound
  • n. the sound of such a blow; a thud
  • v. to hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump
  • v. to thud or pound
  • v. to throb with a muffled rhythmic sound
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
  • n. A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.
  • v. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.
  • verb-intransitive. To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. plural Beating of the chest in horses due to spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm. It is similar to hiccough in man.
  • n. 3. In machinery, the dull sound caused by lost motion at some joint where the stress is alternately in one direction and another, and the hole is slightly larger than the pin from wear or mal-adjustment.
  • To beat heavily, or with something thick and heavy.
  • To produce by a heavy blow or beating.
  • To beat; give a thump or blow.
  • n. A heavy blow, or the sound made by such a blow; a blow with a club, the fist, or anything that gives a thick, heavy sound; a bang: as, to give one a thump.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
  • n. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
  • n. a heavy blow with the hand
  • v. move rhythmically
  • v. make a dull sound
  • Verb Form
    thumped    thumping    thumps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hit    sound    blow    go   
    Form
    thumped    thumping   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pound    blowy    beat   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hump    Trump    bump    chump    clump    crump    dump    frump    grump    gump   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thud    clatter    rumble    splash    scrape    hiss    groan    whine    roar    creak