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Thump, Thumb, Trump, Tump, Trounce
Thump performs the double role of a verb and noun. Thump means a blow that produces a muffled sound such as a thud, and producing a sound by hitting with one’s fist such as on a table or desk. He heard a thump (noun) and woke up from his deep sleep.
What’s your trump card to succeed in life?
Thump performs the double role of a verb and noun. Thump means a blow that produces a muffled sound such as a thud, and producing a sound by hitting with one’s fist such as on a table or desk. He heard a thump (noun) and woke up from his deep sleep.
Thump as a verb refers to hit someone with a blunt object; to strike someone or something that produces the sound of thump; to thud, to pound; to throb with a rhythmic muffled sound. The family lived above a dance school that regularly reverberated with a thumping sound when someone entered, or exited.
Does your heart thump (beat or pulsate as a result of fear or excitement) when you are anxious, or excited? The variants of thump are thumps, thumped, thumping (verbs); thumpingly (adverb) and thumper (noun). Note that thumping also functions as an adjective and noun.
Thumping as an adjective refers to outstanding in size, degree, quality; exceptional: he won with a thumping majority. The party won the election with a thumping success. He saw a thumping loss. BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi won with a thumping majority (exceptional) in the General Elections of 2014, and the Congress party witnessed a thumping loss ( a defeat that is very huge).
As a noun thumping refers to a heavy sound that is dull, a heavy defeat usually in sports: the school team saw a thumping from their arch rival. India was thumped by China in Indo-China war. Thumper is the one who thumps (produces the sound as result of hitting, pounding or hitting someone); One could win or lose thumpingly in a sport, in an election or as such in life. But if you are trounced?
Trounced means when someone is defeated badly in a competition, in an election, in a contest; utterly defeated, crushed, receiving a drubbing from someone. Kings XI Punjab trounced Chennai Super Kings in 2014 IPL. Trounced also refers to someone who is punished severely for a wrongdoing, someone rebuked for something.
American Indian Rajat Gupta was trounced (punished) by an American court for indulging in insider training. The variants of the verb trounce are trounces, trouncing and trounced. There are several instances when people have come out triumphing in their lives after facing trounce after trounce.
