thump1 verbthump2 noun
thumpthump1 /θʌmp/ ●○○ verb 
Word OriginWORD ORIGINthump1
Verb TableOrigin:
1500-1600 From the soundVERB TABLE
thump
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | thump |
| he, she, it | thumps | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | thumped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have thumped |
| he, she, it | has thumped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had thumped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will thump |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have thumped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am thumping |
| he, she, it | is thumping | |
| you, we, they | are thumping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was thumping |
| you, we, they | were thumping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been thumping |
| he, she, it | has been thumping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been thumping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be thumping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been thumping |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Thump the watermelon to see if it's ripe.
- Last night, the Dodgers were thumped at home by the Giants.
- Mike thumped Stephanie's back several times to stop her choking.
- The dog's tail continued to thump the rug.
- He felt his heart thumping inside his chest.
- His feet thumped loudly on bare boards.
- I try to thump him with my left, though my hand is a ball of pain.
- She could hear him thumping around in the bathroom, washing before dinner.
- She guessed it thumped for its life.
THESAURUSto hit someone► hit
Collocations to hit someone quickly and hard with your hand, a stick etc: · He hit him hard in the stomach.· I don’t like to see people hitting a dog.
► beat to hit someone deliberately many times, especially very hard: · The girl had been beaten to death.· He was beating the donkey with a stick.
► strike written to hit someone with your hand or a weapon. Strike is more formal than hit and is mainly used in written English: · Her husband struck her twice across the face.· Police say that the man had been struck on the head.
► punch to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight: · I punched him on the nose.· She was screaming and punching him with her fists.
► thump informal to punch someone very hard: · Sometimes I just want to thump him.
► beat somebody up to hurt someone badly in a violent attack, by hitting them many times: · If I tell the police, they'll beat me up.· He had been beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes.
► slap to hit someone with your open hand, especially because you are angry with them: · They had a big row and she ended up slapping him.
► spank (also smack especially British English) to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish them: · Should a parent ever smack a child?· I don’t agree with smacking.· In those days, children were spanked if they behaved badly.
Longman Language Activatorto hit someone deliberately► hit to hit someone with your hand or with something that you are holding in your hand: · Dad! Peter keeps hitting me!hit with: · The victim had been hit with a baseball bat.hit somebody on the nose/in the stomach/over the head etc: · There was a fight, and someone had hit him over the head with a chair.hit somebody hard (=with a lot of force): · He hit him hard in the stomach.hit somebody back (=to hit someone when they have hit you): · Don't hit him, he'll only hit you back.
► punch also slug informal to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight or because you are angry: · The woman claimed that she had been punched and kicked by one of the policemen.· The actor slugged a photographer who got too close.punch somebody on the nose/in the eye/in the chest etc: · Dean punched her in the ribs and pushed her against the wall.
► slap to hit someone, especially on their face, with the flat part of your open hand: · I was so angry I wanted to slap him.slap somebody across the face: · She slapped him across the face and stormed out of the room.slap somebody's face: · Dora slapped his face and ran home.
► strike formal to hit someone, especially on a particular part of their body: · Her husband had never struck her before.strike with: · Evidence shows that the victim had been struck several times with an iron bar.strike somebody on the head/in the stomach etc: · The court heard that the defendant had struck Payne repeatedly in the face, causing serious bruising.
► throw a punch to hit or try to hit someone very hard with a closed hand in a fight: · Rogers threw a punch at Martin.· Foreman, once the World Heavyweight Champion, says 'I never throw a punch in anger.'
► whack informal to hit someone hard, with your hand or with an object: · If he said anything like that to me, I'd whack him!
► thump informal to hit someone very hard with your closed hand, especially on their body rather than on their face or head: · Mike thumped Stephanie's back several times to stop her choking.
► bash spoken to hit someone hard, especially in a fight: bash somebody's head/face/teeth etc in: · I told him I'd bash his head in if he ever touched her again.
► clobber spoken to hit someone very hard, either with your hand or with a hard object: · The kids are bored, and have nothing to do but clobber each other.
WORD SETS► Textures/Soundsassonance, nouncaw, nouncoarse, adjectivecreamy, adjectivecrisp, adjectivecrumbly, adjectiveecho, verbecho, nounfeathery, adjectivefibrous, adjectivefine, adjectivefleecy, adjectivegluey, adjectiveglutinous, adjectivegooey, adjectivehigh, adjectivehigh, adverbhigh-pitched, adjectivemelodic, adjectivemetre, nounpitch, nounpitch, verbpowdery, adjectiverhythm, nounribbed, adjectiveridged, adjectiverough, adjectiverumble, verbrumble, nounrumbling, nounsharp, adjectiveshriek, nounshrill, adjectivesizzle, verbsonic boom, nounsplash, nounsplat, nounsplutter, verbspongy, adjectivetattoo, nountexture, nountextured, adjectivethrum, verbthud, nounthud, verbthump, verbthump, nounthunder, nounthunder, verbthunderous, adjectivethwack, nountimbre, nounting, nounting-a-ling, nountinkle, nountinkle, verbtoll, nountoll, verbtone, nountoot, verbtoot, nounultrasound, nounyielding, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s heart pounds/thuds/thumps
1[transitive] informal to hit someone very hard with your hand closed: (=it beats very strongly)· He reached the top, his heart pounding.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► chest· He felt his heart thumping inside his chest.· He could hear only his own wheezing, and feel only the thumping in his chest.· He was hardly aware of lurching downstairs and into the sharp rain, binoculars thumping his chest.· She thumped her chest with her fist.· Paige sat up, ice in her stomach, her heart thumping sickeningly in her chest.· Polly felt as though her heart was still thumping in her chest and she still felt horribly sick.· He sat down on the bed, his hands in his lap, his heart thumping in his chest.
► heart· Ruth looked, feeling her heart thump.· My palms were sweating, my heart thumped.· For a few seconds he lay there rigid, his heart was thumping and his hands and face were sticky with sweat.· I manage to chatter with the postmaster even though my heart is thumping against my ribs.· He felt his heart thumping inside his chest.· She recognized this quiet as the same one she heard sometimes in the middle of the night when her heart thumped.· The House of Parliament loomed up and his heart began to thump.· What annoyed her about seeing him was that her heart began thumping again.
► table· Oh, you wouldn't know anything about his thumping the table.· When a builder tried to cheat her she overwhelmed him, thumping the table, her normally calm eyes glaring.· He found him agitated and anxious and thumping the table, demanding to discuss the two men's roles in relation to each other.· He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management.· Not with his bawling voice and thumping the table.
If you don’t shut up, I’m going to thump you! She thumped the table with her fist.► see thesaurus at hit2[intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition] to hit against something loudly: His feet thumped loudly on the bare boards. He thumped his cup down on the table.3[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to walk or run with your feet making a loud heavy sound as they touch the ground: Stella came thumping down the stairs.4[intransitive] if your heart thumps, it beats very strongly and quickly because you are frightened or excited: My heart was thumping inside my chest.thump1 verbthump2 noun
thumpthump2 noun [countable] ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- A suitcase toppled off the top of the wardrobe and landed on the floor with a thump.
- Jimmy heard a thump, followed by the slamming of the front gate.
- There was a loud thump as Eddie threw Luther back against the wall.
- At two in the morning I was awakened by tremendous thumps and crashes which were shaking the cabin.
- He could hear the music and its pile-driving thump in the background.
- More usually, they come down with a thump a yard or so away.
- The thump of the wall against his back.
- The heavy thump of acid house music was everywhere.
- There were no grunts, no thumps, no scuffling of feet.
THESAURUSmade by things hitting other things► bang
Collocations a loud sound caused especially when something hard or heavy hits something else: · I heard a loud bang and rushed out to see what had happened.· He slammed the door shut with a bang.
► crash a very loud sound caused when something hits something else, especially when damage is caused: · The tray of dishes fell to the floor with a crash.· I heard an enormous crash outside our house, and I went to see what had happened.
► thud a quiet low sound made when a heavy object falls down onto surface: · There was a dull thud as the box hit the floor.· His head hit the ground with a sickening thud.
► thump a dull loud sound made when a heavy object hits something else: · There was a loud thump as Eddie threw Luther back against the wall.
► clink a short ringing sound made when two glass, metal, or china objects hit each other: · the clink of champagne glasses· The clink of cutlery could be heard in the restaurant.
► tinkle the pleasant sound that is made by light pieces of glass or metal hitting each other repeatedly: · He listened to the faint tinkle of cow bells in the distance.
► jingle the sound of small metal objects being shaken together: · the jingle of her bracelets· the jingle of keys
► rattle a short repeated sound made when things hit against each other – used especially when part of something is loose and is hitting against something: · There was a strange rattle coming from the engine.· the rattle of the trolley
Longman Language Activatorsounds made by something hitting or falling onto something► bang a loud sound caused especially when something hard or heavy hits something else or falls on a surface: · I heard a loud bang - it sounded like something had fallen down upstairs.make a bang: · Small children are often frightrened of fireworks that make a bang.close/land/collide etc with a bang: · The lid of the box fell shut with a bang.
► thud the low dull sound produced when something heavy but soft hits something else or falls on a surface: · I heard a shot, followed by a thud as his body hit the floor.hit/drop/land etc with a thud: · A snowball hit her on the back of the neck with a soft thud.the thud of: · Suddenly we heard the thud of horses' hooves.
► crack a loud sudden very sharp sound like the sound of a stick being broken: · The branch broke with a sudden crack.· As I hit the floor, I heard a loud crack in my arm.
► crash the very loud sound produced when something hard such as metal or glass hits something else or falls on a surface, especially when damage is caused: · There was a loud crash in the bedroom and my dad started yelling.fall/land/hit etc something with a crash: · The whole tray of dishes fell to the floor with a crash.
► clatter the loud sound produced when a lot of hard things hit against each other or hit a hard surface: · The clatter in the kitchen told me that Mum was already up.fall/drop etc something with a clatter: · Bert put down his tools with a clatter, and looked round the room.the clatter of something: · Just then there was the clatter of hooves on the road outside.
► bump the dull, fairly quiet sound produced when something such as part of your body hits something or falls against a surface: · At night, the old house seemed to be full of strange creaks and bumps.fall/sit down/hit etc something with a bump: · Martin sat down suddenly with a bump.
► thump the dull, fairly loud sound produced when something heavy suddenly hits something else or falls hard on a surface: · There was a loud thump as Eddie threw Luther back against the wall.hit something/fall etc with a thump: · A suitcase toppled off the top of the wardrobe and landed on the floor with a thump.
WORD SETS► Textures/Soundsassonance, nouncaw, nouncoarse, adjectivecreamy, adjectivecrisp, adjectivecrumbly, adjectiveecho, verbecho, nounfeathery, adjectivefibrous, adjectivefine, adjectivefleecy, adjectivegluey, adjectiveglutinous, adjectivegooey, adjectivehigh, adjectivehigh, adverbhigh-pitched, adjectivemelodic, adjectivemetre, nounpitch, nounpitch, verbpowdery, adjectiverhythm, nounribbed, adjectiveridged, adjectiverough, adjectiverumble, verbrumble, nounrumbling, nounsharp, adjectiveshriek, nounshrill, adjectivesizzle, verbsonic boom, nounsplash, nounsplat, nounsplutter, verbspongy, adjectivetattoo, nountexture, nountextured, adjectivethrum, verbthud, nounthud, verbthump, verbthump, nounthunder, nounthunder, verbthunderous, adjectivethwack, nountimbre, nounting, nounting-a-ling, nountinkle, nountinkle, verbtoll, nountoll, verbtone, nountoot, verbtoot, nounultrasound, nounyielding, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s heart pounds/thuds/thumps
1the dull sound that is made when something hits a surface: (=it beats very strongly)· He reached the top, his heart pounding.
The box fell to the floor with a thump.► see thesaurus at sound2[usually singular] especially British English an action in which you hit someone or something: If he does that again, I’ll give him a good thump. a thump on the jaw