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Thudding

adjective

Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. Synonym: dull. "Thudding bullets"

Thud

verb

Make a dull sound. Synonym: thump.

Strike with a dull sound.

Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants. Synonyms: crump, scrunch.

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"Thudding" Quotes from Famous Books

... lift her head, but it seemed to her that the sound of the thudding hoofs died very quickly away. For seconds that seemed like hours she crouched there in the afternoon stillness. Then at last—at last—she ventured to raise ...

— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... here and there, small dark objects came dropping, thudding, crashing down. You might have thought some cosmic gardener had shaken his orchard, his orchard where the ...

— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... was thrusting up over the glassy lake when, next morning, the big tug with a slow thudding of her propeller, moved from her anchorage. At Clark's orders they passed on down the channel, and just where the lake began to broaden was a cluster of white tents. Two Indians were warming their fingers at a rekindled fire. Clark stared hard, ...

— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... to the ladder, his heart thudding painfully. Surely, he thought, he had done nothing to offend even the most particular of deities. Yet, the implications of Ladro's glances and his conversation with the ship's officer were too obvious for even the dullest to misinterpret. ...

— The Players • Everett B. Cole

... face was gone, and in place of it he wore the head of a cat, for she, the watcher, could see its glowing eyes fixed upon her. And Meg—look how her lean limbs gripped him round the body. Listen to the thudding noise as the great knife fell between his shoulders. And now, see—she was growing tall, she had become a giantess, her face shot across the gulf of water and swam upwards through the shadows till it was within a foot of her. Oh! she must fall, but first she would scream for help—surely ...

— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard

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