Crossword clues for boomed
boomed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]
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To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone.
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To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
Alarm guns booming through the night air.
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To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
She comes booming down before it.
--Totten. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: boom)
Usage examples of "boomed".
Wells clutched the side of the stretcher to keep it from sliding as the powerful machine boomed into the sky, already swinging toward the emergency room at the base hospital.
Patrol boats moved lazily in crisscross patterns, trailing explosive charges that boomed and thudded through the ocean.
He laughed, and I remembered how the sound of his laughter had boomed in that wet, snowy drive from Whitehorse across to Haines Junction, how his teeth had shown white against the black of the forest streaming by.
As Martinez touched his lips with his glass, the front door boomed open and a gust of wind riffled papers on the side table.
The old and new apartments soon boomed to the sounds of saws and hammers, and the air was laden with the scent of glue and varnish and fresh paint.
Wells clutched the side of the stretcher to keep it from sliding as the powerful machine boomed into the sky, already swinging toward the emergency room at the base hospital.
The muttered comment boomed and reverberated through the red room, blown out of proportion by the speakers.
Lightning streaked across the sky, and thunder cracked and boomed, shaking the earth.
Up on the kopje an old bull baboon barked, his cry boomed across the valley.
Startlingly, shockingly in the slumberous stillness, there had boomed the deep strident clangor of a great gong!
The Bell on the citadel, which tolled only at the midnight hour or for the death of a king, boomed suddenly.
Bells from distant village churches boomed softly through the air, voices from a world forgotten.
At this point we were still underground and I remember I was just finishing up the stock page when the train boomed out of the tunnel and started going through Harlem.