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Thumping vs Battering - What's the difference?

thumping | battering |

As nouns the difference between thumping and battering

is that thumping is a dull, heavy sound while battering is a heavy beating.

As verbs the difference between thumping and battering

is that thumping is present participle of lang=en while battering is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective thumping

is exceptional in some degree.

thumping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Exceptional in some degree.

    • Noun

  • A dull, heavy sound.
  • * 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
    • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
  • A beating.
    • He received a thumping from the school bully.
  • * 1824 , William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers
    • And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
  • (sports) A heavy defeat.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 11 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation. }}

    Synonyms

    * (heavy defeat) thrashing

    Verb

    (head)

    • battering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy beating
  • A large defeat
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering .}}