thump
/θʌmp/ verb B1- To cause to make a thumping sound. · The cat thumped its tail in irritation.
- To thud or pound.
- To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound. · Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.
- (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.
He/she/it thumps · Past thumped · Past participle thumped · -ing form thumping
Verb forms
- Base form
- thump
- He/she/it
- thumps
- Past
- thumped
- Past participle
- thumped
- -ing form
- thumping
From the library
“A lie, Watson—a great, big, thumping, obtrusive, uncompromising lie—that’s what meets us on the threshold!
Finally he returned to the pawnbroker’s, and, having thumped vigorously upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up to the door and knocked.
I wondered if I looked as I felt and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room.
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump!
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