DRUMMING Synonyms

• the act of overcoming or outdoing

• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

• sharply and harshly discordant

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• repeated heavy blows

• an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

• used to give emphasis

• extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

• quick and energetic

• the physical coming together of two or more things

• the act of contacting one thing with another

• sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect

• having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

• the sound of light blow or knock

• not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft

• a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

• (used informally) very large

• a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement)

• make a rattling sound

• an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing

• give a thrashing to; beat hard

• move like a flail; thresh about

• To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

• A beating.

• a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired

• a cylindrical container that holds liquids

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold

• any of various units of capacity

• put in barrels

• a regular route for a sentry or policeman

• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

• the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

• a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

• a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

• the sound of stroke or blow

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• a regular rate of repetition

• a stroke or blow

• the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

• very tired

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

• hit repeatedly

• move rhythmically

• shape by beating

• make a rhythmic sound

• glare or strike with great intensity

• move with a thrashing motion

• sail with much tacking or with difficulty

• stir vigorously

• strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music

• be superior

• avoid paying

• make a sound like a clock or a timer

• move with a flapping motion

• indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks

• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

• make by pounding or trampling

• produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly

• strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

• beat through cleverness and wit

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• wear out completely

• crowd or pack to capacity

• put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled

• study intensively, as before an exam

• prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• study intensively, as before an exam

• a thrumming sound

• sound with a monotonous hum

• sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)

• make a rhythmic sound

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end