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whoomph /wʊm(p)f /(also whoomp /wʊmp/) nounA 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.
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