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Thudding

adjective

Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. Synonym: dull. "Thudding bullets"

Thud

verb

Make a dull sound. Synonym: thump.

Strike with a dull sound.

Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants. Synonyms: crump, scrunch.

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"Thudding" Quotes from Famous Books

... ray tube firmly attached to him, Vye climbed into the first tree. A slim chance—but his only defense against a possible ambush. A wild outward swing brought him, heart-thudding, to the next set of limbs. Then he had a piece of luck, a looped vine tied together a whole group of branches from one ...

— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... through Brownell for three yards, slipping in the mud, panting, grunting to the accompaniment of thudding feet and the swish of wet canvas. Above the players a cloud of steam hovered as they disentangled themselves. Danny darted into the confusion. Benson was on his ...

— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour

... the cheering, rolling steadily toward them over the human ocean, came the deadened throbbing of drums. A far, thin strain of military music rose, was lost, rose again; the double thudding of the drums sounded nearer; the tempest of cheers became terrific. Through it, at intervals, they could catch the clear marching music of the 7th as two platoons of police, sixty strong, arrived, forcing ...

— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers

... horse's wild snort; another; a shout; the crack of a rifle cutting the silence as a knife cuts a taut string; another crack; an awful, hoarse growl; the furious thudding of horse's hoofs stampeding and growing fainter and fainter; and an appalling series of receding, short, coughing, terrifying, grunting roars. Then silence and utter stillness only, and the cold, calm moon staring ...

— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars

... the door and went with his oddly light and cat-footed tread down the hill. Just once more he paused, halfway between the headquarters of the East Coast Company's chief engineer and the thudding pile-drivers at the edge ...

— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans

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