The snow that had piled up on the roof at night came down with a thud.
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Thud
//ˈθʌd//
Synonyms for "thud" (47 found)
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64 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- δοῦπος noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- δουπέω verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
Bulgarian
1 entries- приглушен звук от падане noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Czech
4 entries- bouchnutí noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- zadunění noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- žuch noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- žuchnutí noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Danish
1 entries- bump noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Finnish
4 entries- jymähdys noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- jysähdys noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- mätkähdys noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- tömähdys noun (the sound of a dull impact)
French
2 entries- martèlement noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- marteler verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
German
4 entries- Bollern noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- dumpfer Knall noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- bollern verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
- dumpf knallen verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
Icelandic
1 entries- dynkur noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Irish
2 entries- trost noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- tuairt noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Italian
1 entries- tonfo noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Japanese
1 entries- ドスンと言う noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Macedonian
2 entries- тап звук noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- тре́сок noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Malagasy
1 entries- ngodongodona noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Malay
4 entries- debak noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- lebak noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- دبق noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- لبق noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Māori
4 entries- ngahoa noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- takuru noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- hapuru verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
- ngahoa verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
Occitan
3 entries- bomb noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- bombe noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- bombar verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
Polish
4 entries- tąpnięcie noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- łomot noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- łubudu noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- łup noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Portuguese
1 entries- baque noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Romanian
1 entries- bufnitură noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Russian
1 entries- глухо́й звук noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- mukao zvuk noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Spanish
2 entries- golpe sordo noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- darse un batacazo verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
Swedish
1 entries- duns noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Turkish
4 entries- güm noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- pat noun (the sound of a dull impact)
- güm etmek verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
- gümlemek verb (to make the sound of a dull impact)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ịch noun (the sound of a dull impact)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
I put the shopping bag on the table with a thud.
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The demon lord finally lost consciousness and fell to the floor with a thud.
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I thought I heard a thud.
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