boom
verb/buːm/
/buːm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they boom | /buːm/ /buːm/ |
| he / she / it booms | /buːmz/ /buːmz/ |
| past simple boomed | /buːmd/ /buːmd/ |
| past participle boomed | /buːmd/ /buːmd/ |
| -ing form booming | /ˈbuːmɪŋ/ /ˈbuːmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to make a loud deep sound
- Outside, thunder boomed and crashed.
Extra Examples- Loud music boomed from the public-address system.
- A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.
- The ship's gun boomed and the shot fell only a hundred metres away.
- [transitive, intransitive] to say something in a loud deep voice
- + speech ‘Get out of my sight!’ he boomed.
- boom (out) A voice boomed out from the darkness.
- A voice from the loudspeaker boomed out, ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen’.
- He had a booming voice.
- [intransitive] to have a period of rapid growth; to become bigger, more successful, etc.
- By the 1980s, the computer industry was booming.
- Business is booming!
Extra ExamplesTopics Successc1, Moneyc1- The club scene was booming.
- Tourist numbers have boomed in recent years.
make loud sound
of business/economy
Word Originverb senses 1 to 2 late Middle English (as a verb): ultimately imitative; perhaps from Dutch bommen ‘to hum, buzz’. verb sense 3 late 19th cent. (originally US): probably from boom ‘a loud sound’.
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