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Meanings of thumping in English

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cop sord

A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

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(Used informally) very large.

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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
Talen skirted rounded the clump of trees and immediately saw the situation.
Servant of a dark god
2
It lay just under that particular clump of bushes, in the shade.
Casey Ryan
3
He strode outside Garadar a short way to a clump of trees.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
4
The shack is straight back in the deepest clump of buttonball trees.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
5
The house stood back from the road in its clump of pines.
Lewis Rand
1
Weary male voices chant 'One, two, free!', followed by a chain-clanking thump.
The crimson petal and the white
2
A noise came from behind the nearby elm tree: a heavy thump.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
3
A moment later a heavy thump on the roof shook the cab.
First among sequels
4
The familiar thump of the postern gate shutting was therefore most unwelcome.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
5
Through the stillness of the night there sounded the thump of oar-locks.
Heart of the Sunset
1
Across the room, something heavy fell to the floor with a clunk.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
2
Seconds later I heard another clunk, receding footsteps, then the slamming door.
Monday Mourning
3
She corked the oil bottle and set it down with a clunk.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
4
Reggie turned the key and they heard the clunk of a mechanism.
Secret of the seventh son
5
The negatives include ventilation controls that clunk and scrape with no damping.
BBC
Usage of thumping in English
1
Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
The Irish Times
2
Europe's population is in decline, and American supremacy has taken a thumping.
The Irish Times
3
Bullies, pimps, and predators often didn't understand anything but a good thumping.
The perfect woman
4
The thumping noise was louder; he was going in the right direction.
The Wolf’s Hour
5
The anniversary will be marked this year with much fanfare and chest-thumping.
The Guardian
6
After a few minutes, Zilpha heard a thumping noise inside the machine.
The nightmarys
7
In the distance he could hear the thumping of the water pump.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
8
Heart thumping, she went to the open ballroom doors and looked in.
The Shining
9
He said something I couldn't hear over the thumping of the rain.
Dexter Is Dead
10
My heart started thumping hard, as if I'd been in a fight.
Fang: a maximum ride novel
11
Heart thumping, I liberated my prize and stumbled back to the building.
Grave Secrets
12
He set it down again, thumping the heavy glass against the countertop.
Rot & ruin
13
The kudzu had taken to thumping over and over on the glass.
Sister Mine
14
The animal moved steadily toward him, its footsteps thumping on the ground.
The Lost World
15
Hector the Barber was now thumping his foot in time and grinning.
Revival
16
It's the moose-hunting, liberal-baiting, bible-thumping governor of the US's most obscure state.
The Irish Times
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