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Thump   /θəmp/   Listen
Thump

noun
1.
A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).  Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thumping.
2.
A heavy blow with the hand.
verb
(past & past part. thumped; pres. part. thumping)
1.
Move rhythmically.  Synonyms: beat, pound.
2.
Make a dull sound.  Synonym: thud.
3.
Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument.  Synonyms: poke, pound.  "A bible-thumping Southern Baptist"



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"Thump" Quotes from Famous Books



... one for many a weary day, and that if she had to crawl up the mountain on her bare knees, she would go to see the parson's witch burned; that she had reckoned upon it for so long, and if he did not let her go, she would give him a thump on the chaps, etc. ...
— The Amber Witch • Wilhelm Meinhold
... The "thump" and the other exclamation did no harm to the Hail Columbia, but the fat old gentleman in the tub of a pleasure-boat that had bumped ...
— Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... gave's breast a thump, And stretching out his hand, - If you will pull me up, he cried, I'll try if I ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... you by easy ship, shore-going ship. No vatch, no heavy veather, good times, ja. You thump mine roonar, you take his voomans, so—you take his yob. Ja? You ship ...
— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer
... back into the wings, and the shrieking and thumping and whistling out in front just went on—and on—and on—and on. Um! I just listened and loved it—every thump of it. And I stood there like a demure little kitten; or more like Mag Monahan after she'd had a good licking, and was good and quiet. And I never so much as budged ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson


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