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Definition of thud noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

thud

noun
 
/θʌd/
 
/θʌd/
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  1. a sound like the one that is made when a heavy object hits something else
    • His head hit the floor with a dull thud.
    • She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears.
    • She felt her heart give an extra thud.
    • The boot made a dull thud as it hit the ground.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • heavy
    • loud
    • resounding
    verb + thud
    • give
    • make
    • hear
    preposition
    • with a thud
    phrases
    • the thud of a heart
    • the thud of hooves
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    Word Originlate 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, which led to the sense ‘ a dull, heavy sound’. The verb dates from the early 16th cent.
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