boometh

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

1. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
   • Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
   • I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “I AND XVII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
3. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
   • The population boomed in recent years.

   Synonyms:

   flourish, prosper

4. (transitive) To make (something) boom.
   • Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
5. To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
   • Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly[.]1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
6. (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.

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