Thwack

Quick meaning: Thwack is a verb meaning To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.

Meaning

To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.

More Meanings

1. To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
2. To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
3. To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
4. To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
5. To fall down hard with a thump.
6. To be crammed or filled full.
7. Of people: to crowd or pack a place.

Example Sentences

Flaies lustily thwack, / least plough séede lack.

This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.

For the poor things [worshippers] would have other idols in place of those he [the iconoclast] thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth.

[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.

Word Forms

• thwacks
• thwacking
• thwacked
• thwackest
• thwackedst
• thwacketh

Synonyms for thwack

Depending on context, synonyms include thack, bethwack, bang, baste, batter, beat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smack, whap, whack, whomp, wham, butt.

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