A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
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Snap Roget’s Thesaurus §406
N. snap, rapping #, decrepitation, crepitation, report, thud, burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley, squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, m80, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun, implosion, bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms) 727, gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, tnt, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms) 727, whack, wham, pow
V. rap, snap, tap, knock, ping, click, clash, crack, crackle, crash, pop, slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham, brustle, burst on the ear, crepitate, rump, blow up, blow, detonate
Adj. rapping
Int. kaboom, whamo, heewhack, pow
Nonresonance Roget’s Thesaurus §408a
N. thud, thump, dead sound, # nonresonance, muffled drums, cracked bell, damper, silencer
V. sound dead, stop the sound, damp the sound, deaden the sound, deaden the reverberations, dampen the reverberations
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