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Thud   /θəd/   Listen
noun
Thud  n.  A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. "At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose." "At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer."


verb
Thud  v. i. & v. t.  To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud. "Hardly the softest thudding of velvety pads." "The waves break into spray, dash and rumble and thud below your feet."





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"Thud" Quotes from Famous Books



... stamped out the iron plates, and then another which, with a mighty thud, mashed them to the shape of the sitting-down portion of the American farmer. Then they were piled upon a truck, and it was Jurgis's task to wheel them to the room where the machines were "assembled." This was child's play for him, and he got a dollar and seventy-five cents a ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair
... saw when I scrambled to my feet was the fat dull face of the guard shining like a harvest moon, and presenting a mark for my fist as round and big as a punching-bag. I hit him once—and that was enough. Then I began to hear the measured thud of my brother's blows, the blows of a workman who knows how to strike and where ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... the top of the upright pine The snowlumps fall with a thud, Come from where the sunbeams shine To lie in the heart of ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... the road at a stile that led into the fields, and as Raymond, deep in thought, passed her without looking up, he saw something cast at his feet and for a moment stood still. With a soft thud his bunch of grapes fell ruined in the dust before him and, starting back, he looked at the stile and saw Sabina's mother gazing at him red-faced and furious. Neither spoke. The woman's countenance told her hatred and loathing; the man shrugged ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... running swiftly over the moor, and I had followed at his heels. But now from somewhere among the broken ground immediately in front of us there came one last despairing yell, and then a dull, heavy thud. We halted and listened. Not another sound broke the heavy silence of the ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle


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