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单词 thud
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Definition of thud in English:

thud

nounPlural thuds θʌdθəd
  • A dull, heavy sound, such as that made by an object falling to the ground.

    砰(或嘭)的一声

    he hit the floor with a terrific thud
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rowdy yelps spill out of the plain stucco house in Tarzana that murmurs with the dull thud of bass.
    • Every now and then, we can hear the dull thuds of exploded ordinance - over Mosul?
    • She heard the soft thud of something hitting the ground, and crawled back to pick it up.
    • The elevator slammed into the ground with a dull thud, and the doors screeched open.
    • I had heard the thuds, bangs and screams last night.
    • We lads were all laughing and joking when there was a series of terrific thuds and the shelter rocked.
    • For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls.
    • I heard hard thuds as bricks and mortar fell to the ground.
    • He told how he was with a friend when they heard the plane's engine revving, then a dull thud.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • He and friends were play-fighting with the clubs when there was a thud and he fell to the ground.
    • A little later we hear two dull thuds echoing across the valley as one of the Apaches fires its missiles.
    • He and the coffee table hit the ground with a loud thud and the sound for breaking wood.
    • They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range.
    • A scream arose from the foliage and a thud was heard as a French soldier hit the hard ground.
    • They had just barely reached the door when several dull thuds echoed off the floorboards behind them.
    • A dull thud echoed all around him and the creature looked wildly around at its pack.
    • Moyes drops to the ground with a sickening thud to the stunned gasps of the Lancashire crowd.
    Synonyms
    thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, boom, thunder, wallop
    stomp, stamp, clump, clomp
    informal wham, whump
verbthuds, thudded, thudding θʌdθəd
[no object]
  • Move, fall, or strike something with a dull, heavy sound.

    砰地落下;发出沉闷的声响;发出嘭声

    the bullets thudded into the dusty ground

    子弹砰砰砰地射进尘土地里。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The punches thudded through the smoke-filled air of the MEN Arena with excruciating force.
    • Bass thudded up from beneath and I could tell the party was getting wilder.
    • A door thudded against the concrete walls and the sound ricocheted down to my ears.
    • Suddenly, something thudded against the grating that covered the opening.
    • The Puerto Rican jumped, and the tranquilizer dart thudded against the wall, narrowly missing him.
    • Her boots thudded softly on the stone steps leading to the East building.
    • Another gunshot pierced the dusk, and a bullet thudded into the ground by Vincent's foot.
    • In injury time, Sedge debutant Jonny Haig fouled an attacker in the box but Shelley's spot-kick thudded against the post.
    • Then he thudded head first against the alley wall and oozed down it while his companions whirled in astonishment.
    • Her necklace thudded heavily on the floor as she fell down flat on her stomach.
    • We were flying over the land as the pounding of the hooves thudded in our hearts.
    • Gary Holt came closest of all when his strike from 25 yards thudded against the crossbar.
    • Something thudded softly against the prow of our boat as we pulled upstream, and in the half-light before dawn it was difficult to tell what it was.
    • Shankland almost scored at the wrong end when his attempted clearing header thudded against Mitchell's bar and bounced to safety.
    • My heart thudded in my chest and I could feel my stomach in my throat.
    • The Air France jet thudded onto the runway, then skidded off the pavement moments later, bursting into flames.
    • He tumbled down the incline, head over heels amid falling debris, and thudded against something soft.
    • His heavy boots thudded against the pavement of a desolate road as he kept on walking in a semiconscious daze.
    • Footsteps thudded down the hall, and his hold on her loosened somewhat.
    • The ball thudded into the immaculate putting surface and spun to about eight feet right of the hole.
    Synonyms
    thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, thunder
    stomp, stamp, clump, clomp
    informal wham, whump

Derivatives

  • thuddingly

  • adverb
    • as submodifier rarely has a life-affirming finale seemed more thuddingly sentimental
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What's a loyal citizen to do when his government seems so thuddingly wrong?
      • Coburn is also off camera for thuddingly lengthy stretches of the picture, while Cobb and the gaggle of actresses run about doing pointless bits of business.
      • I can see people are talking about me, and I go over to hear what they are saying, and it's a thuddingly dull remark.
      • Though Bourne's first half-hour is thuddingly dull, it does manage to eventually find legs to stand on once Potente shows up.
      • Yeah, he's ‘funny,’ but in such a thuddingly obvious way that one wonders if Lyon even understands the films he so enthusiastically rips off.
      • With a less deft script, this could have been a thuddingly dull motion picture, but Steers finds the right balance between irony and pathos.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from Old English thyddan 'to thrust, push'; related to thoden 'violent wind'. The noun is recorded first denoting a sudden blast or gust of wind, later the sound of a thunderclap, whence a dull, heavy sound. The verb dates from the early 16th century.

Rhymes

blood, bud, crud, cud, dud, flood, Judd, mud, rudd, scud, spud, stud, sudd

Definition of thud in US English:

thud

nounTHədθəd
  • A dull, heavy sound, such as that made by an object falling to the ground.

    砰(或嘭)的一声

    Jean heard the thud of the closing door

    琼听到砰的关门声。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A scream arose from the foliage and a thud was heard as a French soldier hit the hard ground.
    • He and the coffee table hit the ground with a loud thud and the sound for breaking wood.
    • 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.
    • He and friends were play-fighting with the clubs when there was a thud and he fell to the ground.
    • The elevator slammed into the ground with a dull thud, and the doors screeched open.
    • 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.
    • Every now and then, we can hear the dull thuds of exploded ordinance - over Mosul?
    • A dull thud echoed all around him and the creature looked wildly around at its pack.
    • He told how he was with a friend when they heard the plane's engine revving, then a dull thud.
    • A little later we hear two dull thuds echoing across the valley as one of the Apaches fires its missiles.
    • They had just barely reached the door when several dull thuds echoed off the floorboards behind them.
    • I had heard the thuds, bangs and screams last night.
    • She heard the soft thud of something hitting the ground, and crawled back to pick it up.
    • She threw her bag across the room and the dull thud assured her it had hit the floor somewhere close to the wall.
    • Rowdy yelps spill out of the plain stucco house in Tarzana that murmurs with the dull thud of bass.
    • We lads were all laughing and joking when there was a series of terrific thuds and the shelter rocked.
    • I heard hard thuds as bricks and mortar fell to the ground.
    • They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range.
    • For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls.
    Synonyms
    thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, boom, thunder, wallop
verbTHədθəd
[no object]
  • Move, fall, or strike something with a dull, heavy sound.

    砰地落下;发出沉闷的声响;发出嘭声

    the bullets thudded into the dusty ground

    子弹砰砰砰地射进尘土地里。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gary Holt came closest of all when his strike from 25 yards thudded against the crossbar.
    • He tumbled down the incline, head over heels amid falling debris, and thudded against something soft.
    • The Puerto Rican jumped, and the tranquilizer dart thudded against the wall, narrowly missing him.
    • Then he thudded head first against the alley wall and oozed down it while his companions whirled in astonishment.
    • Shankland almost scored at the wrong end when his attempted clearing header thudded against Mitchell's bar and bounced to safety.
    • Something thudded softly against the prow of our boat as we pulled upstream, and in the half-light before dawn it was difficult to tell what it was.
    • A door thudded against the concrete walls and the sound ricocheted down to my ears.
    • The Air France jet thudded onto the runway, then skidded off the pavement moments later, bursting into flames.
    • The ball thudded into the immaculate putting surface and spun to about eight feet right of the hole.
    • Her boots thudded softly on the stone steps leading to the East building.
    • The punches thudded through the smoke-filled air of the MEN Arena with excruciating force.
    • His heavy boots thudded against the pavement of a desolate road as he kept on walking in a semiconscious daze.
    • Bass thudded up from beneath and I could tell the party was getting wilder.
    • My heart thudded in my chest and I could feel my stomach in my throat.
    • In injury time, Sedge debutant Jonny Haig fouled an attacker in the box but Shelley's spot-kick thudded against the post.
    • Suddenly, something thudded against the grating that covered the opening.
    • Another gunshot pierced the dusk, and a bullet thudded into the ground by Vincent's foot.
    • We were flying over the land as the pounding of the hooves thudded in our hearts.
    • Her necklace thudded heavily on the floor as she fell down flat on her stomach.
    • Footsteps thudded down the hall, and his hold on her loosened somewhat.
    Synonyms
    thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, thunder

Phrases

  • with a thud

    • Used to describe a sudden and disillusioning reminder of reality in contrast to someone's dreams or aspirations.

      猛然清醒,突然回到现实中

      dropouts have now come back down to earth with a thud

      辍学者们现在才突然从幻想中清醒过来。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Atlanta Falcons came back to earth with a thud.
      • The result is articles from happy land that lift their readers into the air and drop them with a thud once a purchase is made.
      • But she cautioned that David Nalbandian could bring Murray down to earth with a thud.
      • The disastrous start back home sent the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty crashing down with a thud and brought back dreaded memories of some Black Mondays today.
      • After years in development, Vista hit the market with a thud in January 2007.
      • Alas, you are brought down to the earth with a sudden thud as finally you confront the cost of an overseas education.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from Old English thyddan ‘to thrust, push’; related to thoden ‘violent wind’. The noun is recorded first denoting a sudden blast or gust of wind, later the sound of a thunderclap, whence a dull, heavy sound. The verb dates from the early 16th century.

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