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Meanings of crump in English

Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants.

Synonyms
Examples for "thud"
Examples for "thud"
1
The reality of her new situation was brought home with a thud.
The Guardian
2
I could hardly believe that dull thud issued from my own body.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
3
The thud of big wooden sledge hammers driving in the tent stakes.
Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performanc...
4
A bit later I heard his shoes thud against the floor, separately.
All the sad young literary men
5
I heard a dull thud inside and knew exactly what it was.
Exit wound
1
Molly was able to scrunch up her eyes and see past it.
Small favor
2
I have to scrunch in on one side of my own bed.
The center of everything
3
It also leads me to scrunch up when I start to get gripped.
Climbing Magazine
4
The second time, I heard every bone in its body scrunch and crack.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
5
She was roused by the scrunch of carriage wheels on the gravel drive.
The Green Carnation
Usage of crump in English
1
A crump evidently landed somewhere near, and just petrified him, as it were.
Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
2
There's scarcely an inch of ground that isn't a crump hole.
Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
3
The crump of pile drivers; the clash of ancient gears; the squall of cogs.
Black house
4
The muffled crump of an explosion, and a sharp cracking.
Altered carbon
5
If a crump lands close by there's no need of all of us going!
A Minstrel in France
6
To the ramping of the continuous crump the B.M.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917
7
Another crump issued from underfoot and the ground shuddered.
Zero Point
8
Contained within the armoured body, the sound of the explosion was reduced to a muffled crump.
Broken angels
9
There was an impact and a loud crump!
The Flood
10
The hollow crump of a third smoke grenade went off amid the trees to their left.
The Wolf’s Hour
11
Chewbacca heard the whistle and crump of energy weapons firing as he lumbered lightly down the corridor.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
12
From the loading deck above I heard the discharge, a muffled crump followed by a chitinous rustling.
Broken angels
13
A crump reverberated through the thin air, and a cloud of dust rose from the installation ahead.
Zero Point
14
The grenade blew with a curiously muffled crump, and something in my head screamed with the sound.
Woken furies
15
He was burnt to a crump.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
16
Night skies were filled with red tracer bullets and beach baches shuddered from the crump of high explosives.
Radio NZ
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