thumpverb [ I or T ]
uk/θʌmp/us/θʌmp/to hit something and cause a noise:
Someone was thumping on the door.
UK to hit someone with your fist (= closed hand):
He thumped him in the face.
sb's head thumps
UK If your head thumps, you can feel pain in strong beats in your head:
When I woke up my mouth was dry and my head was thumping.
sb's heart thumps
If your heart thumps, it beats more strongly and quickly than usual, because of exercise, fear, or excitement:
She stood outside his room, her heart thumping.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- whack
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thumpnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/θʌmp/us/θʌmp/the sound of something heavy hitting something:
She fell to the floor with a thump.
UK an act of thumping someone or something:
If he does that again I'm going to give him a thump (= hit him with my closed hand).
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Falling and dropping
- ass
- ass over teakettle idiom
- collapse
- collapse/fall in a heap idiom
- cropper
- crumple
- drop
- drop like flies idiom
- drop sb/sth off
- fly
- hit the deck idiom
- let go idiom
- nosedive
- overbalance
- parachutist
- plunge
- pratfall
- put sth/sb down
- shower
- wayside
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