Thump
[θʌmp]
Definition
(noun.) a heavy blow with the hand.
(noun.) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
(verb.) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; 'the salesman pounded the door knocker'; 'a bible-thumping Southern Baptist'.
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Definition
(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. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.
(v. i.) To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Blow, knock, stroke.
v. a. Beat, knock, strike, belabor.
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Definition
n. a heavy blow.—v.t. to beat with something heavy.—v.i. to strike or fall with a dull heavy blow.—n. Thump′er one who or that which thumps: anything very big a big lie &c.—adj. Thump′ing unusually big.
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Examples
- Before I could move, before I could draw my breath after that discovery, I was horror-struck by a heavy thump against the door from the inside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Before we get to our destination we find the wheels themselves beginning to thump and jolt, and the passage becomes more difficult, more uncomfortable, and so much slower. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With a thump and a sound--Old Clem! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In this state of indecision, obviously the first thing to be done, was to thump the boy for finding Mr. Weller at the door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No, he frightened me by a thump on the door outside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As I came to myself (with the aid of a heavy thump between the shoulders, and the restorative exclamation Yah! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe's broad shoulder, I looked all about for any sign of the convicts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At a more than ordinary pitch of thumping and hallooing in the passage, he exclaimed, Devil take those young dogs! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What a thumping present I'd get out of him! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Don't you remember the two Miss Scratchleys at Chiswick, how they used always to fight and quarrel--and Mary Box, how she was always thumping Louisa? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Before daylight I heard the male thumping in the snow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I say agin, I want you, Sir Pitt said, thumping the table. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You think this thumped head of mine is excited? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So his mother thumped him, and he cried melodiously. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He thumped his closed right fist against the palm of his left hand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My heart couldn't have thumped much harder than it did now, if I had been five-and-twenty again! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She was returning: of course my heart thumped with impatience against the iron rails I leant upon. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The noises were sufficiently removed and shut out from the counting-house to blend into a busy hum, interspersed with periodical clinks and thumps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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