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Definition of Thudding
1. Adjective. Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. "Thudding bullets"
Definition of Thudding
1. Verb. (present participle of thud) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thudding
1. thud [v] - See also: thud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thudding
Literary usage of Thudding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: A Revised Orthography by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"perhaps from the dull, thudding sound when heard from a distance) .... Make a
constant dull, thudding noise, as one beating the ground within a hut or at a ..."
2. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer, Frederick Howard Collins (1892)
"thudding, every thud of which wounded me like a club ... The thudding gradually
got less acutely painful, and less loud; I remember a recognition of ..."
3. Works by Herbert Spencer (1910)
"The thudding gradually got less acutely painful, and less loud; I remember a
recognition of satisfaction that one more fearful disturbance was gone. ..."
4. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1897)
"The thudding gradually got less acutely painful, and less loud; I remember a
recognition of satisfaction that one more fearful disturbance was gone. ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1890)
"thudding, every thud 3f which wounded me like a club falling repeatedly on the
same spot * * * From this stage my lungs ceased to occupy me, ..."
6. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1898)
"The thudding gradually got less acutely painful, and lesa loud ; I remember a
recognition of satisfaction that one more fearful disturbance was gone. ..."
7. Our Home in Aveyron: With Studies of Peasant Life and Customs in Aveyron and by George Christopher Davies (1890)
"The thrashers gave an accompanying grunt with each stroke ; and so grunting and
thudding, thudding and grunting, they kept on all day long. ..."
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