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Definition of whump in English: whumpnoun wʊmpwʌmp(h)wəmp A dull or muffled thudding sound. the whump of a distant explosion Example sentencesExamples - Comfortingly, as I type this, I can feel the whump of a helicopter circling overhead.
- One touch to the ground and Scarback beats his wings with a muffled whump and soars high, perhaps five feet into the air, as his opponent rises to meet him.
- A muffled whump sounded and a streak left the launcher and struck the target.
- Their sound has tiers like a wedding cake or a cathedral - the whump of the bass and drums beneath the savage guitars and strings beneath the skipping flute.
- This was followed by a loud crash, a bang, a muffled whump, and then a blood-curdling scream that echoed around the waterfront before dying off into a pathetic moan and silence.
Synonyms bang, sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack
verb wʊmpwʌmp(h)wəmp 1no object, with adverbial Make a whump. he pitched a snowball that whumped into the car Example sentencesExamples - You hear both main tires pop as you whump to the ground short of the runway.
- 1.1with object Strike (something) heavily with a whump.
she began whumping him on his lower back Example sentencesExamples - The kick on the third shot sent me stumbling back a step and I fell against the wooden railing, felt it give, and then before I had time to catch on, something big and hard and solid whumped the wind right out of me.
Synonyms thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, thunder
Origin Late 19th century: imitative. Rhymes bump, chump, clump, crump, dump, flump, frump, gazump, grump, jump, lump, outjump, plump, pump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, ump Definition of whump in US English: whumpnoun(h)wəmp usually in singular A dull thudding sound. the horse fell with a great whump Example sentencesExamples - Their sound has tiers like a wedding cake or a cathedral - the whump of the bass and drums beneath the savage guitars and strings beneath the skipping flute.
- This was followed by a loud crash, a bang, a muffled whump, and then a blood-curdling scream that echoed around the waterfront before dying off into a pathetic moan and silence.
- One touch to the ground and Scarback beats his wings with a muffled whump and soars high, perhaps five feet into the air, as his opponent rises to meet him.
- Comfortingly, as I type this, I can feel the whump of a helicopter circling overhead.
- A muffled whump sounded and a streak left the launcher and struck the target.
Synonyms bang, sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack
verb(h)wəmp 1no object, with adverbial Make a dull thudding sound. he pitched a snowball that whumped into the car Example sentencesExamples - You hear both main tires pop as you whump to the ground short of the runway.
- 1.1with object Strike (something) heavily with a dull thudding sound.
she began whumping him on his lower back Example sentencesExamples - The kick on the third shot sent me stumbling back a step and I fell against the wooden railing, felt it give, and then before I had time to catch on, something big and hard and solid whumped the wind right out of me.
Synonyms thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, thunder
Origin Late 19th century: imitative. |