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Definitions for thud
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thudverb

    a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

  2. thud, thumpverb

    make a dull sound

    "the knocker thudded against the front door"

  3. thudverb

    strike with a dull sound

    "Bullets were thudding against the wall"

  4. crump, thud, scrunchverb

    make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants

Wiktionary

  1. thudnoun

    The sound of a dull impact.

  2. thudnoun

    Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter, after the sound it makes when it crashed into the North Vietnamese countryside, due to its high rate of loss.

  3. thudverb

    To make the sound of a dull impact.

ChatGPT

  1. thud

    A thud is a dull, heavy sound, often made when two solid objects collide or something heavy falls or strikes another object. It is also used to describe the impact sound or action itself.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Thudnoun

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Thud

    thud, n. a dull, hollow sound, caused by a blow or a heavy body falling: a loud noise, concussion, or blast.—v.i. to make a thudding sound: (Scot.) to move quickly.—v.t. (Scot.) to beat, strike. [A.S. þóden, noise.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. thud

    1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was ‘foo’, ‘bar’, ‘thud’, ‘blat’. 2. Rare term for the hash character, ‘#’ (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synonyms.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. thud

    The sound of a bullet on hitting the intended object.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. thud

    The sound of a bullet on hitting the intended object.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thud in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thud in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of thud in a Sentence

  1. Karlie Allen:

    I'm across the room, and I hear a shriek and a thud.

  2. Rhome Nuttall:

    I think it was that big thud. I think that was cargo that shifted and that caused the boat to flip.

  3. Stacey Dougherty:

    I felt and heard a loud thud around 1:30 or so. I thought my neighbor dropped a large item like a piece of furniture, i only found out a bit later on Twitter that it was a gas explosion just down the road from me. I hope no one got hurt.

  4. Cole Bartiromo:

    Suddenly, out of nowhere I felt this thud in the front of my head.

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