thumped

Verb

thump (third-person singular simple present thumps, present participle thumping, simple past and past participle thumped)

1. (UK, transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
   • These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
2. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
   • The cat thumped its tail in irritation.
3. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
4. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
   • Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.
5. (intransitive) (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.

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