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单词 whoomph
释义

whoomph

/wʊm(p)f /
(also whoomp /wʊmp/)
noun
A sudden loud sound, such as that made by a muffled or distant explosion: the distant whoomph of anti-aircraft shells bursting...
  • And while I was looking at that side, there was a huge sort of whoomph, and I turned round and the petrol tanks on the port wing had burst into flames, so there was nothing much we could do other than leave [the plane].
  • If you hear a whoomph, the strong layer has just collapsed the weak layer.
  • When we gathered midslope at a cluster of trees, the entire half-mile-wide hillside released with a quiet whoomph.

Origin

1950s: imitative.

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