Tra từ thump - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s heart pounds/thuds/thumps (=it beats very strongly)
▪ He reached the top, his heart pounding.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
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.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thumping headache
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.

thump

I. thump¹ /θʌmp/ verb
[date : 1500-1600; Origin : From the sound]
1. [TRANSITIVE]
informal to hit someone very hard with your hand closed:
　 ▪ If you don’t shut up, I’m going to thump you!
　 ▪ She thumped the table with her fist.

2. [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.
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THESAURUS
to hit someone
▪hit 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 /θʌmp/ 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.

II. thump² noun [COUNTABLE]
1. the dull sound that is made when something hits a surface:
　 ▪ The box fell to the floor with a thump.

2. [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
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THESAURUS
made by things hitting other things
▪bang 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