I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s heart pounds/thuds/thumps (= it beats very strongly )
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He reached the top, his heart pounding.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chest
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He felt his heart thumping inside his chest .
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He could hear only his own wheezing, and feel only the thumping in his chest .
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He was hardly aware of lurching downstairs and into the sharp rain, binoculars thumping his chest .
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She thumped her chest with her fist.
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Paige sat up, ice in her stomach, her heart thumping sickeningly in her chest .
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Polly felt as though her heart was still thumping in her chest and she still felt horribly sick.
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He sat down on the bed, his hands in his lap, his heart thumping in his chest .
heart
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Ruth looked, feeling her heart thump .
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My palms were sweating, my heart thumped .
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For a few seconds he lay there rigid, his heart was thumping and his hands and face were sticky with sweat.
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I manage to chatter with the postmaster even though my heart is thumping against my ribs.
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He felt his heart thumping inside his chest.
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She recognized this quiet as the same one she heard sometimes in the middle of the night when her heart thumped .
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The House of Parliament loomed up and his heart began to thump .
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What annoyed her about seeing him was that her heart began thumping again.
table
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Oh, you wouldn't know anything about his thumping the table .
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When a builder tried to cheat her she overwhelmed him, thumping the table , her normally calm eyes glaring.
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He found him agitated and anxious and thumping the table , demanding to discuss the two men's roles in relation to each other.
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He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management.
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Not with his bawling voice and thumping the table .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thumping headache
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Thump the watermelon to see if it's ripe.
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Last night, the Dodgers were thumped at home by the Giants.
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Mike thumped Stephanie's back several times to stop her choking.
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The dog's tail continued to thump the rug.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He felt his heart thumping inside his chest.
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His feet thumped loudly on bare boards.
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I try to thump him with my left, though my hand is a ball of pain.
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She could hear him thumping around in the bathroom, washing before dinner.
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She guessed it thumped for its life.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A suitcase toppled off the top of the wardrobe and landed on the floor with a thump .
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Jimmy heard a thump , followed by the slamming of the front gate.
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There was a loud thump as Eddie threw Luther back against the wall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At two in the morning I was awakened by tremendous thumps and crashes which were shaking the cabin.
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He could hear the music and its pile-driving thump in the background.
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More usually, they come down with a thump a yard or so away.
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The thump of the wall against his back.
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The heavy thump of acid house music was everywhere.
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There were no grunts, no thumps, no scuffling of feet.