Word Finder - thump

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A blow that produces a muffled sound.

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The sound of such a blow; a thud.

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Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

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Where the thump have you been?!

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To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.

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To cause to make a thumping sound.

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The cat thumped its tail in irritation.

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To thud or pound.

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To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

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Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.

The thump of a helicopter drew nearer.

The heavy thump of footsteps on the stairs interrupted their conversation.

The thump of the helo returned, this time much closer.

The world grew loud, with voices jumbling with the sound of equipment and possibly the thump of a helicopter.

Sweating and impatient after the slim escape from the ambush, Brady restrained his urge to thump the fed slowly checking Brady's micro.

Even when bikinis were taking over in the 1950s, Marilyn Monroe did a series of photo shoots wearing a white one-piece that made plenty of hearts thump.

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There was a thump as the car smacked a body, and her eyes flew open.

They had all heard the thump of his falling body.

Then look over the sides of the hull very carefully and give a good thump on the side every now and then.

Then she got up and stood very still, as if listening with her feet for Mildred's "thump, thump."

If this doesn't make your heart thump, you're officially dead.

My dog also does well with hand signals, and when we're in the house I can thump the floor to get her attention.

But soon after it ends, a loud thump is heard overhead; the sound of a falling body.

The canvas bag dropped at his feet with a solid thump, its contents making the sun-dried ground sound hollow.

The main flapped once, and banged like a strongroom door to the thump of the wind pouring out of the valley.

Again Luis Valencia has been the provider, crossing for Carlos Tenorio to thump home a header from close range.

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They are most known for hits such as "Fell In Love With a Girl," "Seven Nation Army," "My Doorbell," "Icky Thump," and "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told").

Her knee hit the solid chunk of wood with a nauseating thump.

The music still blares out, but there is no sound of chest beating or the thump of studs on the floor.

The only thing we caught were small brown trout, which give a heart stopping thump on the line in the fast water.

The sound effects and music are excellent too, completing the atmosphere and excitement of the game as punches thump and blades clang together.

Events include watermelon seed spitting contest and the crowning of a Thump Queen, sounds attractive huh?

Suddenly I felt an exceptionally heavy thump in my heart, like an extra powerful beat.

A new decade emerged which would be marked by excess, leisure suits and the steady thump of disco.

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If this does n't make your heart thump, you 're officially dead.

The thump he heard the night before was his car hitting the man.

One had her form under my house all winter, separated from me only by the flooring, and she startled me each morning by her hasty departure when I began to stir--thump, thump, thump, striking her head against the floor timbers in her hurry.