Thwack

//θwæk//

Synonyms for "thwack" (143 found)

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Translations

61 translations across 14 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • كف noun (act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • силен удар noun (act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack)
  • бия жестоко verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • пле́щя verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • плю́щя verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Finnish

4 entries
  • plätsis intj (used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped)
  • tömpsis intj (used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped)
  • läimäys noun (act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack)
  • rojahdus noun (dull or heavy slapping sound)

French

1 entries
  • tabasser verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Galician

4 entries
  • bater verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • bourar verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • brear verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • carmear verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

German

3 entries
  • Knall noun (dull or heavy slapping sound)
  • schlagen verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • verprügeln verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Greek

1 entries
  • κοπανίζω verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • тре́скот noun (dull or heavy slapping sound)
  • тре́сок noun (dull or heavy slapping sound)
  • у́дар noun (act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack)
  • пле́сне verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Polish

3 entries
  • praskać verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • prasknąć verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • prasnąć verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Romanian

1 entries
  • plesni verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • mlȁtnuti verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • opáliti verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • trȅsnuti verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • trȅsnuti verb (to drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting)

Spanish

4 entries
  • chingadazo noun (act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack)
  • arrimar verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • fajar verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)
  • hostiar verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Swedish

1 entries
  • smälla verb (to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • huỵch intj (used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped)

Sample sentences

28 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A satisfying thwack echoed through the living room as Anna successfully hit the June bug with the magazine, sending it spiraling to the ground.

Source: tatoeba (11842180)

This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.

Source: wiktionary

Flaies lustily thwack, / least plough séede lack.

Source: wiktionary

Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.