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thumping
/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
noun 3adj 1adv 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, crazy, good, inside, outdoor, outside, rapid, received
VERB + THUMPING
heard
THUMPING + NOUN
noise, noises, school, wizard, you'll
PREP.
from
ADV.
faintly
Definitions
adj
1
Exceptional in some degree.
adv
1
Exceptionally. Very.
A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.
noun
1
A dull, heavy sound.
They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.]
There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
2
A beating.
He received a thumping from the school bully.
And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
3
A heavy defeat.
Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.
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A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.
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They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a
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There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
Wiktionary04
He received a thumping from the school bully.
Wiktionary05
They had been thumping the drum all along.
Tatoeba · #30708106
Fadil heard a thumping sound coming from the basement.
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