Meanings (ES + gloss)
golpe sordo
A blow that produces a muffled sound.
... and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.
The watchman gave so very great a thump at my door last night, that I awakened at the knock.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
azotar • golpear
To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.
These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.
azotar • golpear
To thud or pound.
golpetear • tamborilear
To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.
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