1 [usually +adv./prep.] to hit sb/sth hard, especially with your closed hand:
[VN] He thumped the table angrily. * She couldn't get her breath and had to be thumped on the back. * (informal) I'll thump you if you say that again. * (figurative) He thumped out a tune (= played it very loudly) on the piano. [also V]
2 [+adv./prep.] to fall on or hit a surface hard, with a loud dull sound; to make sth do this:
[V] A bird thumped against the window. * [VN] He thumped the report down on my desk.
3 [V] to beat strongly:
My heart was thumping with excitement.
seealsoTUB-THUMPING
Part of speech: noun
1 the sound of sth heavy hitting the ground or another object:
There was a thump as the truck hit the bank.
2 (BrE, informal) an act of hitting sb/sth hard:
She gave him a thump on the back.
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