thump

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

thump (plural thumps)

1. a blow that produces a muffled sound
   • Tatler

     The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.

2. the sound of such a blow; a thud

Translations

a blow that produces a muffled sound

• Finnish: kumauttaa (fi), jysäyttää (fi)
• French: coup sourd (fr) m

• Russian: глухой удар (gluxój udár) m
• Spanish: golpazo (es) m

the sound of such a blow; a thud

• Finnish: tömähdys, jysähdys, kumahdus (fi), kumaus (fi)
• Russian: глухой удар (gluxój udár) m

• Spanish: golpazo (es) m

Verb

thump (third-person singular simple present thumps, present participle thumping, simple past and past participle thumped)

1. (transitive) to hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump
   • Shakespeare

     These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.

   • 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, BBC:

     Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.

2. (intransitive) to thud or pound
3. (intransitive) to throb with a muffled rhythmic sound

   Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.

Translations

to hit someone so as to make such a sound

• Finnish: tömäyttää, jysäyttää

• Spanish: golpear (es), azotar (es)

to thud or pound

• Finnish: jysähtää, tömähtää
• Scottish Gaelic: buail (gd)

• Spanish: golpear (es), azotar (es)

to throb with a muffled rhythmic sound

• Finnish: jyskyä (fi)
• French: tambouriner (fr)

• Spanish: tamborilear (es), golpetear (es)