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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thud
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dull thud
▪ The gates shut with a dull thud.
sb’s heart pounds/thuds/thumps (=it beats very strongly)
▪ He reached the top, his heart pounding.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dull
▪ As he moved along the rows of guns, his wooden leg sounded dull thuds.
▪ The gunshots were no longer dull thuds echoing off the hill but reports, punctuated by the snapping of triggers.
▪ There were dull thuds from the cargo hold.
▪ Another dull thud behind his left knee.
▪ The gates shut behind him with a dull thud and the sound of the wind died away.
▪ Plastic produces a dull thud, while glass gives a high-pitched clink.
▪ Almost immediately there was a dull thud as it fell on the floor.
heavy
▪ They heard the heavy thud as he fell.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sickening thud/crash/sound etc
▪ Her heart took up a sickening thud.
▪ One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.
▪ Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.
▪ Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.
▪ They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A snowball hit her on the back of the neck with a soft thud.
▪ I heard a shot, followed by a thud as his body hit the floor.
▪ She landed on the floor with a thud.
▪ Suddenly we heard the thud of horses' hooves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I hear thuds and blows, and then some one is moaning in pain.
▪ I heard a thud behind me.
▪ It hit on the spine and went thud.
▪ Not so natural to put her down with a thud and devour her with a kiss.
▪ Soon he was hammering on the door, thud after thud, a noise fit to wake the dead.
▪ The ferry docked in Brooklyn with a loud thud.
▪ There was another jolting thud in my back.
▪ They fell with a thud upon his bedside chair.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
heart
▪ She could hear his heart thudding under her ear, feel his warmth pressed against her, making her giddy.
▪ She stopped breathing but her heart kept on thudding its own wild race.
▪ When he woke, sweating and exhausted, with his heart thudding as though he had been running, it was properly morning.
▪ His heart was thudding hard against his chest.
▪ His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop on to his forehead.
▪ By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin.
▪ His mouth ached, and his heart thudded painfully from exertion and fear.
▪ She could feel her heart thudding against his chest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By late afternoon, a full-scale battle had broken out with rockets and grenades exploding regularly and bullets thudding into the walls.
▪ I lay down on my bed and felt the blood thudding above my eyes.
▪ She could hear his heart thudding under her ear, feel his warmth pressed against her, making her giddy.
▪ She stopped breathing but her heart kept on thudding its own wild race.
▪ She waited until I locked myself in and then left, her feet thudding hollow on the floor.
▪ When they thud through the letter-box, £150 will go a long way to ease your mind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thud

Thud \Thud\ (th[u^]d), n. [Cf. AS. [thorn][=o]den a whirlwind, violent wind, or E. thump.] A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.

At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose.
--Jeffrey.

At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer.
--C. Mackay.

Thud

Thud \Thud\ (th[u^]d), v. i. & t. To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.

Hardly the softest thudding of velvety pads.
--A. C. Doyle.

The waves break into spray, dash and rumble and thud below your feet.
--H. F. Brown.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thud

Old English þyddan "to strike, stab, thrust, press," of imitative origin. Sense of "hit with a dull sound" first recorded 1796. Related: Thudded; thudding. The noun is attested from 1510s as "blast of wind;" 1530s as "loud sound."

Wiktionary
thud

n. 1 The sound of a dull impact. 2 (context US military dated slang English) Republic http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/F-105%20Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. v

  2. To make the sound of a dull impact.

WordNet
thud
  1. n. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clump, clunk]

  2. v. make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door" [syn: thump]

  3. strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the wall"

  4. make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants [syn: crump, scrunch]

  5. [also: thudding, thudded]

Wikipedia
Thud (album)

Thud is Kevin Gilbert's debut album as a solo artist, and his last release before his accidental death in 1996.

Thud

Thud may refer to:

  • An onomatopoeia of a collision
  • Thud (game), a 2002 board game inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
  • Thud!, a 2005 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
  • Thud (album), an album by Kevin Gilbert
  • F-105 Thunderchief, a U.S. fighter-bomber, nicknamed Thud
  • Thud!, a children's book by Nick Butterworth
  • Thud, a fictional character in the animated film A Bug's Life
  • Thud, a fictional character in the animated film series The Land Before Time
  • Thud experiment, a 1973 study into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
  • a loud sound

Usage examples of "thud".

The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.

The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.

The remains of their aviso, now in two sections, thudding down either side of the ship, careered into them, the jagged edges of wood cutting flesh and the sheer force of the impact breaking bones.

The bondsman strode directly to the conference table, placing his briefcase on it with a resounding thud.

Patrol boats moved lazily in crisscross patterns, trailing explosive charges that boomed and thudded through the ocean.

Their wheezing breath was loud in the shuttered quiet of the street, but he could hear the snarling brabble of voices not far off and the thudding sound of feet.

His heart thudding with anticipation, Bubber turned the handle of the bell.

With sickening thuds, axes joined the cacophonous din of death and cleaved helms, opened skulls, spilled brains.

Anne dropped her heavy glass to shatter on the marble hearth and ran from the room, the sounds of her clunky boots thudding on the stairs gradually fading to silence.

Stamping and hopping about, suddenly more cheerful because of the sheer silliness of what she was doing, she started dancing with the sunbeams, kicking up swirls of strawdust, until she slipped and landed on her coccyx with a thud that jarred her brain.

A renewed flurry of spears and quarrels thudded against the cog, finding few targets.

The dalesman hit the floor with a muffled thud, his blood mixing with the dregs of the spilled wine.

A bullet whistled through the waving folds of the black cloak and thudded into the opened door of the safe, a foot from Driller Borson.

By the time he reached the Fauces Suburae his heart was thudding, and every part of him wanted to turn uphill, ride at the gallop to his home to make sure his family was unharmed.

Arthur could hear the thuds as the Fetchers threw themselves against the exit.