as in thumps
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument
the thud of his head against the cabinet door brought tears to his eyes
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as in bumps
to come into usually forceful contact with something
the snowball thudded against the side of my car
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Recent Examples of thuds
Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
At about two this morning, the familiar howl of air-raid sirens woke me in the center of Kyiv, followed by the low thuds of anti-aircraft cannons attempting to shoot down Russian drones.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
Muffled thuds are heard, and the crying stops.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for thuds
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In Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, neighbors can still hear the thumps.—
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The 2027 Ram 1500 SRT TRX will start at $99,995, excluding a mandatory $2,595 destination fee that bumps the price to $102,590.—
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A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.—
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Brown responds by shoving the officer's hand down, and after the second shove, the officer throws two punches.—
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But amid the coronation for their crosstown rival, Gottlieb was looking for anything that told her this Trojans team could take some punches and also give some back in March.—
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Opt for wispy wisteria bangs for something low maintenance or turn up the face-framing flattery with a thicker curtain fringe.—
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Before boarding the bus, schoolboy Harrison Higgins, who bangs the drum, literally, for Darlo, optimistically predicts a 2-1 away win.—
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Both teams' goalkeepers were taken off after blows to the head.—
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Simmons recalls his first day on set came with some blows.—
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But that hope collides with a harsher reality.—
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All of it collides Tuesday, when a field of more than a dozen contenders appears on the same ballot in a free-for-all to succeed Greene that is only the first step in what could become a five-election slog to claim the seat.—
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In this world, items are paid for by receiving slaps to the face.—
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Europe has long underspent on defense, and where American cajoling for decades had not worked, a few face slaps succeeded.—
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When this valve slams shut, the entire network suffers a mechanical heart attack.—
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Researchers tested whether a hardy bacterium could endure the crushing pressures generated when a space rock slams into a planet and ejects debris into space.—
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“Thuds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thuds. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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