Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To beat soundly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To beat or thump soundly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
thump soundly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness in word, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and trying to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness _in word_, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and _trying_ to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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