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- Dictionarythud/θʌd/
noun
- 1. a dull, heavy sound, such as that made by an object falling to the ground: "he hit the floor with a terrific thud"
verb
- 1. move, fall, or strike something with a dull, heavy sound: "the bullets thudded into the dusty ground"
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the sound that is made when something heavy falls or hits something else: The boy fell to the ground with a thud. I could hear the thud of horses ' hoofs down the dirt road. Synonyms. clunk. thump. Fewer examples. The bomb landed with a dull thud. A loud thud rang out like a muffled gunshot.
Verb The ball thudded against the side of the house. the snowball thudded against the side of my car. Recent Examples on the Web. Noun. That era ended with a thud as the tech-heavy Nasdaq index fell over 50% in the year 2000 as Cisco and other once-hot stocks came down to earth.
To thud is to make the loud sound of something heavy hitting or falling. Tip your chair too far back and your body may thud against the floor.
A thud is a dull sound, such as that which a heavy object makes when it hits something soft. She tripped and fell with a sickening thud. Much of their study and revision was done to the thud of hammers and pneumatic drills.
1. A dull sound, as that of a heavy object striking a solid surface. 2. A blow or fall causing such a sound. intr.v. thud·ded, thud·ding, thuds. To make a heavy, dull sound. [Perhaps from Middle English thudden, to strike with a weapon, from Old English thyddan, of imitative origin .]
the sound that is made when something heavy falls or hits something else: The boy fell to the ground with a thud. I could hear the thud of horses ' hoofs down the dirt road. Synonyms. clunk. thump. Fewer examples. The bomb landed with a dull thud. A loud thud rang out like a muffled gunshot.
noun. /θʌd/ a sound like the one that is made when a heavy object hits something else. His head hit the floor with a dull thud. She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears. She felt her heart give an extra thud. The boot made a dull thud as it hit the ground. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin.
Thud definition: a dull sound, as of a heavy blow or fall.. See examples of THUD used in a sentence.
THUD definition: the sound that is made when something heavy falls or hits something else: . Learn more.
Thud definition: A dull sound, as that of a heavy object striking a solid surface.
