thud
/θʌd/
US pronunciation
American sound/θʌd/
thud
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short u vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
US voice -> thud
Myanmar meaning
တိမ်သော ၊ ကျယ်သော အသံတစ်မျိုး။ အသံမကျယ်ဘဲ ဖြစ်စေသည်။ လဲကျသည်။
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- ‘We lads were all laughing and joking when there was a series of terrific thuds and the shelter rocked.’
- ‘I had heard the thuds, bangs and screams last night.’
- ‘Moyes drops to the ground with a sickening thud to the stunned gasps of the Lancashire crowd.’
- ‘One poor soldier crashed into the ground at breakneck speed with a dull thud which brought a sharp intake of breath from the crowd.’
- ‘She threw her bag across the room and the dull thud assured her it had hit the floor somewhere close to the wall.’
- ‘The elevator slammed into the ground with a dull thud, and the doors screeched open.’
- ‘A scream arose from the foliage and a thud was heard as a French soldier hit the hard ground.’
- ‘They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range.’
- ‘He told how he was with a friend when they heard the plane's engine revving, then a dull thud.’
- ‘For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls.’
- ‘A dull thud echoed all around him and the creature looked wildly around at its pack.’
- ‘A little later we hear two dull thuds echoing across the valley as one of the Apaches fires its missiles.’
- ‘Rowdy yelps spill out of the plain stucco house in Tarzana that murmurs with the dull thud of bass.’
- ‘She heard the soft thud of something hitting the ground, and crawled back to pick it up.’
- ‘Every now and then, we can hear the dull thuds of exploded ordinance - over Mosul?’
- ‘Every so often, the roar would drop to a murmur, only to swell again after the next ball hit the ground with a muffled thud.’
- ‘I heard hard thuds as bricks and mortar fell to the ground.’
- ‘He and the coffee table hit the ground with a loud thud and the sound for breaking wood.’
- ‘They had just barely reached the door when several dull thuds echoed off the floorboards behind them.’
- ‘He and friends were play-fighting with the clubs when there was a thud and he fell to the ground.’
Synonyms
thump, dull sound, bump, clunk, bang, knock, bang into, beat, blast out, blow, clanging, clomp, clonk, clop, clout, clump, crash, fall, flutter, footslog, galumph, galumphing, go pit-a-pat, hammer, hit, meet head-on, percuss, plop, poke, pound, pounding, pulsate, pulse, rap, run into, sideswipe, slap, smack, smash, smash into, sound, stodge, strike, tap, throb, thrum, thwack, tramp, tunk, walk over, wallop, whack, whacked, whacking
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